the secret is out!
Wednesday, February 01, 2017
just as most of our big life changing decisions are made, we talked about baby #3 in our kitchen, in the craziness of making fajitas while the kids banged toys together in the playroom.
in the beautiful chaos.
we decided. we planned. and we did it.
I had taken good care of my body after I stopped nursing Skylar as we knew we wanted to have baby #3 very soon. I am actually very against birth control and all it can do to a women's body, not to mention hormones and emotions. so I believe because we didn't do that, we had no trouble getting pregnant this go.
we planned to "stop preventing" pregnancy in November because I so badly wanted an August baby. well, here we are.
*sidenote - I planned for August B U T didn't think about the fact that I never make it to 40 weeks in my pregnancies. I go into natural labor between 37-38 weeks. so it'll most likely be a July baby, which is still fine. I just want a summer birthday party baby. (pool party, holla!)
we couldn't wait to take a test.. we literally counted the days. we were patient and to see that little cross show up, faintly the first time and significantly the next, lifted us so high. we did it.
we decided to keep it all under wraps until Christmas, and announce it then. we had ideas for fun ways to announce it. well I don't know what is going on, but my belly started popping in no time. it was getting harder and harder to hide. especially because we are so close to both sides of our family and we seriously cannot stay away from each other.
the night before an Albuquerque trip, Sky was in and out of sleep and Brandon couldn't sleep, so he started brainstorming how we would spill the news the next day.
he wrote a poem..
At Christmas time we look to family
To give us joy and wonderful memory
We give many gifts
out of kindness and love
And treasure each other
as a true gift from God.
Many things beautifully wrapped
bought from a store and lie on the floor.
But the greatest gift of all
is not wrapped under the tree
But lies within Vanessa,
Baby number 3.
now we had to find out how to tell my family. we decided on the extra stocking on Christmas morning since everyone was coming over for presents. well, that didn't go either. Christmas Eve, I literally tried on 7 outfits and couldn't hide it. unless I wore a hoodie to dinner, this bump was out. so Brandon spilled the news in a prayer before dinner. S U R P R I S E!
so here we are.. 13 weeks in.
my belly is out and in charge.
about half of the people that know, thought we were having twins.
wouldn't that be funny?
*scared face
we aren't. we've got O N E healthy baby that is very active by the way. he/she was dancing around in the womb for us during our ultrasound. we were so surprised to see the baby wiggle all around so early in pregnancy.
monthly updates coming soon.
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