Welcoming Baby Number 5!

I am pregnant! I still feel a bit like I am surprising myself every time I say it!

This baby is certainly unplanned, but most certainly welcome! We now realize events that led up to this even being a possibility were all a means to a greater plan. Everything that happened, needed to happen to open the way for this baby to bless our lives.

We are very excited! In spite of my not feeling well. At all. I do have three months under my belt, so I am kind of hoping I am on the uphill end of the sickness battle. We laughed and I did a little crying, when we figured this whole thing out. After about eight pregnancy tests. Which kept giving us mixed results. That was an interesting day!

Walker, our current youngest, and the baby will be a month shy of five years apart in age! I have given away all of our baby paraphernalia. Caught a little off guard! We have decided that we better try very hard to be in the moment with this baby and enjoy each step along the way. Apparently that includes the shopping for baby stuff part of it too! We are blessed to have been given the chance to be expand our family once again. I have not done the pregnancy thing in five years. That feels like a really long time when you take into consideration that I was pregnant again with a year and a half of each of my previous babies!

We are hoping the baby will cooperate enough that we can get a glimpse of the gender at the end of this month!
We told our families and our children while we were on an extended layover in Salt Lake City over Spring Break. Everyone was VERY surprised!
Wally fell right on the floor! Oh the drama! He came to me a few minutes later and said, "Mom, I thought you were done having babies."
I told him I had thought so as well, and we will all just have to be on this ride together!
Georgia told us that she is still feeling a little scared. She is so excited she has not been able to keep it to herself! Anyone that pauses long enough to have a short conversation with her gets the scoop! She just can't keep it in!
Here is the ultra sound I had to confirm. With the date clearly showing, since I decided to announce on April Fools Day, and threw everyone off on if they should believe me or not. Oh, this is real people!

We do tend to get a lot of looks with the four kids we have, so I can't imagine the looks and comments we will get with five. I guess I will just have to keep in mind that the people who think we are crazy, just don't know what they are missing!

You can consider this my three month progress shot. I do feel that this baby is popping a little earlier than the others have, but I realize to others I am still not really showing.

Thrilled to meet this little one in mid October!