We have exciting news in our house of no dull moments!! I am expecting my third child and we are one happy family. I figure I will be 6 weeks tomorrow, but I go to the doctor on the 23rd of this month for my first official visit and I will find out how far along I am a bit more accurately. My due date according to my calculations is May 6, 2015.
I am still dealing with a ton of emotions right now - I am so super excited about this new life growing inside me, I am a bit scared about Matt and me being outnumbered by children now, I am emotional from the rush of hormones raging through my system, I am completely and utterly exhausted because I am in my first trimester... You get the picture.
Anyway, I would like to do a lot of things this time that I only wish I had done with the previous two pregnancies. One thing I would like to do is keep a pregnancy journal which I may just do on this blog. I would also like to take more pregnancy photos this time, especially family photos featuring my pregnancy. More than likely this will be my last pregnancy and at the moment that makes me a little sad, but I am pretty sure if you ask me in about 7 months I will be ecstatic about this being "it" for me! ;) I know that pregnancy and child-rearing can be rough, but I absolutely adore both. I enjoyed my pregnancies before, aside from the "morning" sickness lasting several months and all of the aches and pains that come along with carrying a child.
According to one pregnancy app on my phone, my Baby Bean, as I so lovingly refer to my new child, is the size of an orange seed - talk about tiny!! I think one of the most fun (funnest?) things about this particular pregnancy is sharing it with my daughters. Jessalyn will be nine next month and Mattilyn is 4 and they both love to hear updates on the baby. I think they will really trip out when I bring home the first sonogram pictures. Both girls are hoping and praying for a baby brother, and of course I would love to add a baby boy to family, but I assured Jessalyn that if this baby happens to be another sister for her she will fall in love with the baby so quickly she will never remember hoping for a brother.
My silly 4 year old cracks us up every single day with her "Mattilynisms" and I actually thought to write a couple down that she has said since finding out she will be a big sister - something that she is STOKED about! Anyway, we told the girls about the baby along with everyone else this past Sunday, September 7, 2014, Grandparent's Day. Mattilyn informed me later that day that if this baby is a girl she would like to name her Annalise or Lily (Annalise is her American Girl's name and she just loves the name Lily). However, if this baby is a boy she wants his name to be Georgia Bulldogs or Love Georgia Bulldogs.
Last night I had loaded both girls up and we went to town to grab some supper. I was in line at a drive-thru and Mattilyn, in the backseat, prayed, "God, please make it a boy if it's a girl. And if it's not a girl please leave it like it is!"
Now that I have written my first post of this pregnancy, I really must get up and go to work. I am honestly so tired right now that I could just go to bed and it is 9:07 am. I must go to work, so I will leave you for now. I will try to be better about posting more often.
