The Exciting News!

Yes, our family is growing again!  

We are so very excited to announce a new little Cole will be joining our family in March.  

Yes, we are probably crazy for having two kids 17 months apart.. on purpose.  Believe it or not, we did give the timing a lot of thought. We knew we wanted a larger family and we knew we wanted the first two close in age.  Ideally, I would have liked 18 months to 2 years difference, but due to Sam's work schedule, it wouldn't have worked expecting a baby next summer so it was either early spring or later in the fall.  I wanted spring. :)

No, I don't plan on being pregnant for the next several years either.  I think we will have these two close together and then take a while to enjoy our family of four.  I know we won't be done after two but I'm not going for 3 under 3! I like to think for the third baby,  these two will be old enough to play and entertain each other while I cuddle and enjoy a newborn.  I have a feeling this go around it might be a bit more frantic than that.

It's a strange feeling knowing my time is so limited with Andrew now.  I guess bittersweet, don't get me wrong.. I'm very excited because I know this is the right decision for our family, but he's my baby and it is a bit sad to think there won't be enough of me to go around when I have a newborn again.  I'm pretty sure I would feel that way no matter how old he is though, which is a bit comforting. 

As for the baby, I'll be 9 weeks on Friday!  I don't think I'm quite as sick as I was with Andrew.. I think with him I was throwing up every.single.day at this point but I already have medicine so that helps (I didn't get it until 11 weeks with Andrew). With this one, it's more just having that lingering nauseated feeling that lasts for most of the day.  It's like nothing sounds good.  I haven't cooked dinner in two weeks.. poor Sam.

I guess that is about it for the big update!