Avery in her fancy Elton John sunglasses

So everyone is wanting to know how it went down yesterday and I'm so happy to say that it really wasn't as bad as I was anticipating. We got up with plenty of time to make it to church and Avery had on her visor....As soon as service let out, mom and dad joined us in the hall outside of the nursery and were chatting it up and showing off Avery to their friends and everyone kept saying what a cute visor Avery had on. Batman and I simply stood there with butterflies in our stomach wondering if my parents were going to notice the news painted on it that read : "Christ is risen and I'm 2B a big sister"
mom got the first part read aloud ok but I think the paint and the slang got her baffled and she quit trying even though I was coaching her.
we made it back to my parents house and had a great Easter lunch. my sister and I had spent the day before assembling broccoli bake, Watergate salad, sweetpotato casserole so all we had to do was take the Ham out of the oven and we feasted. While we were prepping the table I let my sister Rachel in on our surprise and told her to go check out AVery's visor and to read the whole thing. Finally after we chowed down....Avery sat in her high chair between me and my dad and he kept scooping these HUGE over size bites of sweetpotato into her little mouth , my family decided to take a break and return for the carrot cake later after we had a chance to see Avery's Easter basket.
mom had gotten a wicker laundry basket and decorated the whole thing with fancy Easter fabric and eggs and after we opened all her goodies, we took the basket outside and place avery inside it for some real cute pictures.
oh, wait, no....While we were all on the floor opening her stuff, my sister takes it upon herself to point out once again that my parents need to read AVery's visor so after a couple of tries, mom gets the thoughts and jumps up and runs to the kitchen where I'm putting up the dishes and askes me if I have some meaning behind the "I'm 2B a big sister" and I kinda started to tear up and she gave me a hug and I just pleaded with her to please be happy for us and she was and my dad didn't give us any sort of lecture. he was real quiet but he ended up telling batman congratulations so at least it went a thousand times better then I was dreading.
my family is supportive and I heard something come from my mother that was helpful in my anxiety over this. Mom was telling me that yes, it was going to be difficult but that even when she discovered that she was pregnant with me and my older brother was only like 15 months old, she was freakin out wondering how she was going to manage.
It doesn't matter what Age Avery is, I would have felt overwhelmed thinking about doing the pregnant thing again and hearing my mom say that kinda helped put this into perspective

so we survived Easter and it turned out to be such a good day. I even got a chance to talk with my Gram B over the phone and she thanked me for pulling the family together for Easter. She has to listen to my mother complain about how the family never does anything and how miserable she is so Gram B and I were laughing about how now my mother needs to realize that the family does get together; sometimes in may only be in part but its not as bad as mom tries to make it sound. we really are a great bunch of people and have a huge love for everyone. Mom just has a bad habit of trying to find everything wrong in the world and having pity parties that last for weeks
but I wasn't going to let Avery's first Easter be anything less then fun.

I'm just relieved that my parents were able to jump on the bandwagon with Batman and myself and they werent being old ninnies by only finding the negative in our situation. this pregnancy is going to be a challenge but then wasn't the first even worse. I've been down this road before and I'm determined that this time, I might enjoy it better. And that AVery's development will help distract me from the slowly passing time and discomfort.

thank you all for your wonderful comments and encouragement. it means the world to me to know I have such caring and helpful blogger buddies out there. You are so great and I am so blessed