A is up to something

A is terrible at keeping secrets.  TERRIBLE.  He's constantly telling people what we got them for their birthdays or Christmas before we give it to them.  I almost always know what I'm getting before he gives it to me.  When he travels he tries to keep a secret but always ends up blurting out what he got me because he gets so excited about it.

He is however, up to something and is being very secretive about it.  I almost feel like I'm making it up and he's not really up to something because I feel like if he really was up to something he wouldn't be able to keep it a secret.

So here's what has triggered me to think something is up.  First, my birthday and Mother's day are in the same week, which as you know, is coming up.  So he has asked me a few times what I want for my birthday.  (As a side note, how come this question gets harder and harder to answer as we get older?) So, the other day, he got home from a trip and was helping me give N his bath when his phone rang.  He went to get it and said "Oh hey!  Hold on a sec" and walked all the way downstairs with the phone.  So I'm already suspicious because he did that and my imagination started running away with me.  I could tell it was a girl that he was talking to because of the tone of his voice.  When he's talking to "his boys" he's all loud and obnoxious.  So I kept straining to hear who he was talking to because it's weird for him to be talking to a girl (other than his mom) and have to walk downstairs to do it.  Then as he finished the phone call I heard him say, "Alright, Thanks P....".  It was my SISTER!

Now to some of you this may not seem suspicious, and when I asked him about it he said, "I had called her to say hi and see how she was feeling since the baby" which is a perfectly good explanation EXCEPT that they NEVER talk to each other like that.  They like each other and they get along, but P and A have VERY different personalities, so it made me really suspicious, that he talked to her for a good 10-15 minutes and that she called him.

I wasn't going to say anything to him, but we were talking later on that day and he said something to me about not believing what I said (jokingly) and I said "Oh and I'm supposed to believe you just called P to check up??  I know you're up to something!"  He just laughed and said "Nope, I was just calling to see how she was" then got up and walked away.  For some reason this seems even more suspicious to me....I don't know why though.

It's killing me and I know that's the whole point but really, it's killing me.  I really hope that he actually is up to something and that I'm not just making this up because otherwise I'll be really disappointed....I guess I'll just have to wait and see (for once!)