April fools day has never been a holiday I really ever celebrated but this year I decided that would come to an end and this year change April Fools forever. I would play the April Fools of April Fools jokes on my poor innocent husband. This is how the story begins....
My plan started on Monday March 28th, well before the actual April fools joke would happen. Monday I was not feeling so good, having some unusual cramping. Both Kevin and I thought it was weird since I'm so regular with my cycle, and I wasn't supposed to start till after Friday. Tuesday rolled around and I was talking to my Mother-in law about somethings and she mentioned something about April Fools Day on Friday... Light bulb!... my mind started thinking... April Fools huh?... hmmm I could totally play a good joke on Kevin, if I started playing it up now I thought...
I'll walk you through my well devised plan ...
Day one: Wednesday night I mentioned to Kevin that I had been so sick the last two mornings, and that I had even been throwing up. I acted all worried about it and I told him I just feel so weird. I tried to get some sympathy from him, and tried tp plant the idea in his mind that we might possibly be pregnant. He suggested it's a flu bug and that he hasn't been feeling very good himself, "and plus" he says, "you always feel sick like you are going to throw up, it's probably nothing." He was right I thought, I do always complain about being nauseous, so I proceeded to remind him that was true but I had never thrown up, especially two mornings in a row.
We left it at that and we carried on with our night...
Day two: I text Kevin Thursday morning while he's at work, complaining about being so sick and that I'm on the verge of throwing up again. He texts back how he wishes he could be there to hold my hair back and that he feels so bad for me...
He seriously thinks I'm sick and is feeling bad for me. I just chuckle to myself and go on with my day.. off to work for me..
I come rolling in from work around 9:30 with a "sick" look on my face. I didn't really have to play that up very much, I was quite tired and I was feeling shaky from not eating anything all day.
I dramatically laid on the living room floor and wined that I was so exhausted and felt like crap. Kev asked, " do you think you are pregnant?" ....SEED PLANTED... Obviously I knew I wasn't pregnant, but Kev didn't know that, so I continued to wine about being sick and talked to myself out loud about how I couldn't be.. I just couldn't. I did this so he thought I was freaked out about the idea of having a baby. I also wanted to make him think that what would happen tomorrow was "really" what it was. We continue to talk for a few minutes about the possibility, and came to the conclusion that I was probably fine, and this was just another one of my several baby scares.
Day of the Fool:
Kevin text me and asked how I felt.... I text back, "I'm nauseous but haven't thrown up yet... key work YET" We text back and forth for a bit and decide we'd do lunch around noon since it is my day off and we love doing lunch whenever we can.
This was my plan all along.. take him to lunch and break the news.
First I had to make a few stops to make it as convincing as possible. I had contacted Kevin's cousin, Brittani, for a much needed prop, a few days earlier. Brittani is pregnant, and almost ready to have her baby, so I asked her to take a pregnancy test for me.. and of course Brittani was all for the idea. I think her reply was "I'll Pee for you!" This very positive pregnancy test was going to erase all doubt, or skepticism that Kev might have. My plan was going so smoothly.
Next stop, the store for one more prop... or gift. I picked up a unisex outfit for a gift for Kev... I then text him and said "I have a surprise for you, I'll see you in a bit" and headed to his work..
I set the pregnancy test and outfit out for display and So when Kev got in the car he saw them. His response was, "I guess we are pregnant?", he was cool about it all, and made me feel so good about "being Pregnant". I leaned over and kissed him and my eyes filled with tears... who knew I was such a good actor? it even surprised me but I acted like it was natural.I guess all this talk was really getting to me.
He couldn't stop smiling, but was kinda quite. I think he was absorbing the news. He then said, "what a day to take a pregnancy test Hun." I replied with, "why". He came back with, "it's April Fools Day". He was testing me to see if I'd cave. I didn't and all doubt was erase from his mind by a reassuring glance at the date on my car dash, a surprised look, a simple shrug and a, "oh my gosh, really? That's crazy".
He totally fell for the bate. I mean how insensitive would he be to deny the whole thing with all the hard evidence I had presented?
We went to lunch planning out what we would need to do from here. We talked about when we'd talk to our parents, and family, about when to go to the doctors and what I needed to be careful about. We also talked about the possibility of complications, and what we'd do. We pretty much talked about everything that might arise as a problem or change we'd need to make with a little one on the way.
Now it was back to work for Kev and a very distracting 3 hours of work, that was for sure.
To make this story a bit shorter, I'll skip all the planning of how I'd tell him and skip right to what happened when he got home.
Kev walked through the door and I was in the living room working on the computer. He peeked around the corner and with a big smile, he said "how's my baby, and how's my other baby?". I couldn't help but smile. He made a few small remarks about the news he received just a few hours earlier and I then gave him a card that read "Daddy" on the envelop. He opened it up and there on the front was a baby with a funny look on its face, inside read "OH NO SHE DIDN'T, HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY! Love, your not so pregnant wife".
His response was everything I hoped for...
"That was a good one Hun, I really thought we had a little one on the way! Wow you got me good!"
We laughed about it for hours after.. literally hours. It was so much fun to plan and carry out, I made this joke so convincing I ended up going to the store for a pregnancy test of my own, I had almost convinced myself I was pregnant, and had to reassure myself it was just a joke on Kevin. I definitely put the spirit of April Fools into our day and I'm sure it'll be a Holiday we always celebrate or at least remember.
