I love to do lists. I make the lists, and make little check boxes next to them. Now, some things linger on my to do list longer than others. This entry is one of them. It has been present with a wide open little square next to it just waiting for that satisfying little check mark for months, about 8 to be exact. Baby #3 is a huge deal and we're super excited so the fact that I haven't been on top of getting it done in no way means that we are ho hum about #3 (in case my son decides to investigate my blog in the future and wonders why he hasn't been mentioned until he has nearly popped into the world I wanted to clarify this)--parenting twin toddlers and juggling job/marriage, etc has kept me from getting this done--and I procrastinate on blog entries as evidenced by the fact that there are huge gaps between entries at times. So this entry is a tribute to our first son that is due to arrive in 3.5 weeks to be exact (if he goes along with his mommy's meticulous planning).
Without doling out too many gory details, I must mention that we are not a couple that having kids comes easy to. I guess we didn't jump into the right fertility pool at some point or maybe it has something to do with pursuing a career for quite a while before deciding to have kids but we like to say we have 'expensive kids' (by the way, I could do an entire blog post just on the experience of sitting in the waiting room at a fertility clinic--it's very interesting people watching to say the least). So it was no different with this kiddo (yea science!) and when you use science to manipulate the situation you know you are pregnant nearly from the minute the cells start dividing to form a mini human. So it feels like I've been pregnant for forever since I've known from very early on in the process. It's been a pretty easy pregnancy (I think God feels bad about the fertility thing so he makes up for it with a smooth pregnancy without nausea/heartburn/swelling ,etc) and I've enjoyed being able to say (finally) to the lovely people who ask 'are you pregnant'? "Why yes I am thank you for asking" (I routinely got asked if I"m pregnant even when I wasn't) so pregnancy has been a nice time to ditch the spanx and let it all hang out :)
We found out we were having a little boy over labor day weekend when our friend did an ultrasound for us (I have no patience) which was a big shock. We are just used to girls--girl stuff, girls that can sit and color for a bit, girl clothes, girl toys--and the idea of having a boy made both of us a bit nervous at first. I mean little boys are cute and I think I handle that but little boys turn into big smelly hormonal teenage boys and I'm not quite sure about that. This little male fetus is also 4 times as active as the twins were combined which definitely makes me nervous about how active this little guy might be. Those leash things they sell for kids might actually be appealing :).
Compared to the size I was with the girls I am practically a ballerina this time around, although the patients at work beg to differ ('girl, you swolled up, when is that baby comin?').
Lydia and Grace really have no grasp of what is about to happen. They know that Baby b is in mommy's tummy but it pretty much ends there so it should be interesting to see how they react.
So for completeness sake I put some prego pics below so Baby B knows he did reside in mommy's belly for a long 9+ months and that we have been eagerly anticipating his arrival from the minute we saw the plus on the stick :)
Without doling out too many gory details, I must mention that we are not a couple that having kids comes easy to. I guess we didn't jump into the right fertility pool at some point or maybe it has something to do with pursuing a career for quite a while before deciding to have kids but we like to say we have 'expensive kids' (by the way, I could do an entire blog post just on the experience of sitting in the waiting room at a fertility clinic--it's very interesting people watching to say the least). So it was no different with this kiddo (yea science!) and when you use science to manipulate the situation you know you are pregnant nearly from the minute the cells start dividing to form a mini human. So it feels like I've been pregnant for forever since I've known from very early on in the process. It's been a pretty easy pregnancy (I think God feels bad about the fertility thing so he makes up for it with a smooth pregnancy without nausea/heartburn/swelling ,etc) and I've enjoyed being able to say (finally) to the lovely people who ask 'are you pregnant'? "Why yes I am thank you for asking" (I routinely got asked if I"m pregnant even when I wasn't) so pregnancy has been a nice time to ditch the spanx and let it all hang out :)
We found out we were having a little boy over labor day weekend when our friend did an ultrasound for us (I have no patience) which was a big shock. We are just used to girls--girl stuff, girls that can sit and color for a bit, girl clothes, girl toys--and the idea of having a boy made both of us a bit nervous at first. I mean little boys are cute and I think I handle that but little boys turn into big smelly hormonal teenage boys and I'm not quite sure about that. This little male fetus is also 4 times as active as the twins were combined which definitely makes me nervous about how active this little guy might be. Those leash things they sell for kids might actually be appealing :).
Compared to the size I was with the girls I am practically a ballerina this time around, although the patients at work beg to differ ('girl, you swolled up, when is that baby comin?').
Lydia and Grace really have no grasp of what is about to happen. They know that Baby b is in mommy's tummy but it pretty much ends there so it should be interesting to see how they react.
So for completeness sake I put some prego pics below so Baby B knows he did reside in mommy's belly for a long 9+ months and that we have been eagerly anticipating his arrival from the minute we saw the plus on the stick :)
