Announcing

Yes it was planned. And yes we are happy about it. 

Sorry, it's just that when I announced our good news to my family the first thing everyone wanted to know was if it was planned. Not if we were excited, not if we thought it was a girl or a boy, not how far along I was, not how I was feeling....but was it planned. 

I've noticed that people start asking that question somewhere right around baby number 4. As if it's unimaginable that someone would actually PLAN to have more than 3 kids. Unimaginable that couples might actually want to have a big family on purpose. Well, we did and we do, so there's that out in the open. And for future reference, when someone announces a new baby on the way, just say congrats and be happy with them, no matter what number of baby it is. 

Stepping off the soap box...

I'm about 13 weeks along. I'm due September 19th. I went to the doc last week and had an ultra sound to determine how far along I was. Things look great. Doc said usually he can give me a 60% guess at the gender, but baby was curled into such a tight ball at the appointment that we didn't even get a glimpse. So we'll find out gender at the end of April. 

That being said, Aaron and I are both leaning towards thinking its a girl. When I was pregnant with Ruby, I knew I would have another baby after her, and since then have always kind of felt like it would be a girl. So we'll see. :)

I've been nauseated and exhausted for most of this pregnancy so far. So that's fun. I'm just starting to get to a point where staring at a computer screen doesn't make me sick. (Hence the zero blog posts for January and February.) I haven't really been craving anything yet, but Ramen Noodles are about the only thing that sounds good when I'm nauseous, so I've been eating lots of those. 

I'm just starting to really show - a lot earlier than I started showing with Rue. :/ But I'm still fitting into regular jeans.  No need to bust out the maternity clothes sooner than necessary. I'm sure I'll get sick of them quickly enough. Haha! 

We've told the kids. They are excited. Adelia keeps praying for a baby sister and that she'll get here soon. She has no concept of how far away September is. 

I have started a long list of baby names I love in my journal. The names are leaning very heavily in the nature name variety this time. I'm also feeling like I'd like to pick a much more unusual name than we've picked in the past. Maybe stay out of the top 1 or 2 hundred most popular names, if I can help it. We'll see.