Sonogram BAM!

I suppose I should start from the beginning.  And by beginning I don’t mean the start of my life, but when my life started to get crazy.  Obviously I’m talking about when the tornado trio came into the picture.   I really don’t remember how everything happened because I hadn’t even turned three when they were born.  So, I have to just rely on the way I have heard mom and dad tell it over the years.

They usually start off by remembering how at our family Thanksgiving dinner in 2012, my aunt Christine kept telling my parents that they should have another kid.  Of course everyone just joked it off, but later on dad saw mom whispering something to aunt Chris.   Dad had a good idea what the big secret was and just as he suspected, after everyone left mom told him that she might be pregnant.  In a few days they figured out for sure that she was.  I’m not sure how all that works.  Maybe she just noticed she was getting fatter.

Other people seemed to notice.  One Wednesday night at youth group (my dad was the youth pastor at our church a the time) a couple of different people asked mom if she was having twins.  That night at home, mom told dad she was kind of offended that people thought she was that big.  Then after a visit to Chicago, Mimi (my grandma on my mom’s side) asked if mom ate a lot of Italian food on our trip.  Dad noticed she seemed bigger than normal too, but he knew better than to say anything about it.  In fact, when mom asked if she looked bigger, he actually told her “no”.   It must be okay to fib to stay out of the dog house.

Then on March 7th, 2013 my parents had a sonogram appointment.  This being their fourth child (or so they thought), this stuff was old hat to them and they had thought about skipping it.  During the first swipe of my mom’s belly, the sonogram tech said a bad word… they still won’t tell me which one.   Because of the strange reaction, my dad pulled out his phone just in time to get the news.  The link for that video is below followed by the clip of them revealing it to the family.  After my parents were told they were having triplets, the nurse noticed how grey my dad had turned and brought him a cup of water, a wet towel and a throw-up tray.

They walked out an hour later completely different than they had come in.  My parents couldn’t really comprehend what was happening.  They had never even met anyone with triplets before.  And as for me?  Well, no more being the baby of the family!  My world was definitely about to change!

My family’s reaction to the news of the triplets!

(written from Journey’s perspective by dad…but partially typed by Journey)