Baby #3 is on the WAY!

I can finally write about what has really been going on in our lives over the last few months…..

We are PREGNANT! I can't believe I'm finally writing the words. I don't really know exactly who reads my blog so I wanted to be sure that all my close friends and family knew before starting to write about it. 

We decided to get off the pill after Barrett was born. We have always gone back and forth on if we wanted another child so once Barrett made his arrival and was just so sweet and the boys oohed and awed over him we decided to just take the plunge! Actually the story of how we really came about it is super sweet. Ryon and I talked about it on a Saturday night over burgers cooked out while we all enjoyed the back yard together as a family. I brought it up, Ryon declined of course, and we just kinda brushed it off. That Sunday in Sunday School three of our class members brought their sweet babies to class and we basically spent the whole hour just passing them around and talking baby. We went to church and towards the beginning of the service Ryon passes me a little note and it says, "God Willing, let's grow our family." and his eyes were filled with tears! I was shocked, he shrugged his shoulders as if to say, I have no idea why I'm crying or passing you this note, but here it is. We didn't talk about it again at all until later that night when we were in the car headed over to see sweet Barrett. I had just finished a pack of birth control pills so I just didn't fill the prescription and there we were! Headed down this unknown, scary, exciting road again. We did give ourselves until Christmas. If we weren't pregnant by then, then we probably wouldn't continue trying. I had gotten pregnant in the first month with both of the boys so we were just going to take it as a sign if we didn't get pregnant after 4 months.

I took several negative tests in September, October, and a few in November. Right before Thanksgiving though I felt like I was getting the flu, which has always been my "I'm pregnant sign." Ryon predicted it and so I took a test Thanksgiving morning while Ryon left to go get his machine he purchased from Odessa. I took two positive tests. God's Will said a baby was in our future. I couldn't believe it. I wanted to think of this wonderful way to tell Ryon but I also knew I couldn't keep a secret from him and wanted him to know asap. When he got home I gave him the tests all wrapped up in a box as a "thanksgiving gift." He was shocked but really excited as well. We decided we'd go ahead and tell our families. We were headed to his parents for Thanksgiving right then and figured we could tell them somehow. As we went around the circle sharing what we were thankful for that year I simply said that I was thankful to become a mommy of 3 in the upcoming year. Everyone was so shocked and excited. I called my family too and the word was out. 

We had to wait about 2 weeks for our first sonogram. I thought I was a little further along but when we got there, the baby was like this tiny little speck on the screen, measuring maybe 5 weeks with no heartbeat yet. I was so uneasy about it and I also was not feeling good at all. 

We went in for another sonogram the next week and there was a heart beat of 134. What a relief it is to hear that sound as pregnant parents. Is there a more joyous sound? I really don't think so. I did cry some tears of joy and I was able to breathe much easier. The next week was Christmas and then New Years so I wasn't able to get back in to the Doctor until yesterday. 

I was so ready for the reassurance again. I was ready to hear that heart beat and really ready to tell another group of friends and not live in "hiding" like I felt like I've been doing. So yesterday we went in and the sonogram was wonderful. We actually measured at 10 weeks and 1 day which was ahead so our due date was changed to August 5! Exciting. The baby has arms and legs moving around and you could see the heart just beating as fast as could be at 171 beats!! I was not expecting to see such growth in the baby so it was so wonderful to see movement and arms and legs and just everything. 

Ryon and I then took a cute selfie with the sonogram picture and I texted it to several more friends that 

we hadn't told yet. The word is definitely out now! 

As for me, I've been feeling ok. and only ok. I wasn't sick with the boys and I haven't with this one either. The first few weeks of taking my prenatal vitamins were very rough so I finally started taking at night and that has helped a lot. I'm just the normal tired and nauseated but nothing I can't handle. New York completely wore me out though and I literally laid on the couch for about three days in recovery. I really am starting to show. My stomach isn't hard yet so I just look fat but it's definitely already starting to pop out. I had an unwanted 5 pounds to begin the process so now it's all just being pushed out, oh joy! We won't be finding out the sex so I'm anxious to see if I start to carry the baby differently from the boys. The boys were both so low I felt they would fall out at any point during my pregnancies. 

We are excited and nervous. I'm nervous about the changes. I feel like we are in a really great routine with our boys right now so it's hard for me to imagine starting over with a baby. I wish they were going to be closer in age. Ryon and I have always been pretty good about having our kids adapt to our life routine and situations and so there's no doubt in my mind that we'll have the baby carrier strapped into the back of the ranger at the ranch at the first possible moment we can escape midland ;) And for the boys…they are excited. Sutton doesn't understand why he can't see my baby in my belly and always pulls my shirt up and they are both getting used to the idea of probably sharing a room!