"Good morning Ricky... "

... Was what I heard at like 8:30 or 9 0'clock in the morning. I should have known she was up to something because Tina always lets me sleep in when I'm not due into work until late. "I'm making breakfast", she says. I reply "okay" and fall right back to sleep just like I was supposed to be doing. Then about 15 minutes later... "breakfast is done". I stumble out of bed, eyes half open purely out of obligation (if she's making breakfast then I have to eat it and she knew this. It was her little way of commanding me to get out of bed). So you'd think she'd have let me get food in my belly and wake up a little before telling me this news (then again with some men's reaction maybe food in my belly wasn't such a great idea). I sit down and eyes barely focused I see a note staring back at me from in front of my plate that begins Dear Daddy, and I'm thinking this can't be for me. She left it out by accident and is giving it to my dad or her dad. I shouldn't pry, but then my eyes start to focus.

Dear Daddy,
Looks like I decdided to arrive a little earlier than planned! :) Surprise! Mommy feels like she's going crazy right now cause I got her excited & scared & tired & moody s please help her take big breathes (nice spelling Tina, you wake me up this early in the freaking morning and didn't even consider my spelling OCD. You're lucky I missed that one, but I digress...) and relax. Oh yeah, make sure you have some dope sneakers & my own piece of cardboard waiting for me!
Love, Baby 
P.S. Can't wait for you to teach me to play XBOX! :)

All I could do was sit while leaning on one and go "Wow. Wow. Wow." Then as if the note didn't seal the deal she pulls the note away so I can see the positive test. "WOW!" I gues she was nice about it. After I got over the shock I said "come here" and she sat in my lap and cried. It's okay they were happy tears.

She gives me this news as I'm about to go to work and says "don't tell anybody yet" Except for the 2 that we chose to let in that day. One of my buddies at work that night asks "so anything new. YEAH I'M HAVING A BABY! I'M HAVING A BABY! kicks off in my head. "No man, same ol' same ol". I couldn't contain it forever though. I have a select fraternity of friends I chose to share with before Tina and I told our families together on Easter.

I guess I was blessed though. I told my buddy at work how she chose to tell me. He said "You were lucky. I was sitting in my rocking chair just rocking and watching TV (he points out that the chair was one of the few things he kept from when he was a bachelor). She walks in and just blurts out 'I'm pregnant' and stops me mid rock". Yeah so I was definitely lucky I guess.

So that's my version because Tina covered pretty much everything in her blog yesterday. Sorry this one didn't come sooner because I wasn't sure what to write about yesterday other than the note from my unborn child.

PS: My evil wife made me burn my shirt for HER perfect valentine's day.

THE END