Baby Makes 5!!!

We are entering the world of being outnumbered and we could not be more thrilled about it!!!  We are getting our family of 5 - yay!

Craig and I have always said we wanted at least 3 kids (he says we are done and I think we are too, but hey we could always win the lottery so it's not 100% over!)  Lol - Craig probably just fell off his chair reading that but he knows what I mean :)  Anyway, we have been anxious and excited to bring another baby into our house and the time is finally here!!

Here is our journey...

We decided to start trying last June and we got pregnant right away!  Unfortunately, like many other couples we suffered the devastating experience of a miscarriage at 9 weeks along.  We found out at an appointment on Aug 14th and I had a D&C procedure done on August 16th.  That weekend was my birthday and, as horrible as the timing was, it was also sort of perfect and definitely therapeutic to get away with just my boys to Breckenridge and have a weekend showered with love from them.  The whole experience was a completely horrible out of body experience and I pray everyday for people that are going through it.  For me, it is more healing to be open about it and it has been incredibly eye opening and sad at how common it is and how many of my friends have been through it.  It was a tough time in August but I believe God gave me this challenge to help me understand the struggles of others around me.  (Thank you to everyone who was so supportive during this time and a special thank you to the most amazing husband in the world.  He always knew the right thing to say and the right times to just not say anything.)

Fast forward a couple months and Craig and I got VERY lucky and were able to get pregnant just a few months later.  November 14th in the middle of the day I just had a feeling so I went upstairs, took a test and started crying.  I was so excited, yet skeptical, worried, afraid and everything that goes along with realizing how fragile a pregnancy is.  I couldn't hold my excitement in and called Craig right away.  It was a lame way to tell him but we had done all the cute stuff before and this time I was keeping it simple :)  

I had an appt 2 days later, at 5 weeks, to see if everything was going ok.  At 5 weeks they can't really see anything yet but we could see a black circle in the right spot so that was the first step and good news so far :)   The next week we flew to CA for Thanksgiving and we were able to share the good news with my family over dinner one night!  We told Craig's family the next weekend on the Santa Train in Georgetown. 

Since then I have had unltrasounds at 7 weeks, 8 weeks (because baby was measuring behind at 7 weeks, talk about a LOOOOONG week) but everything looked great at 8 weeks, and then most recently at 12 weeks & 2 days.

Baby at 12 weeks, 2 days

Love the angle we got of his/her sweet hands folded up in front of their face!! 

There are 10, so far so good :)

Not a huge fan of this angle.  It is a front view of the face but it always freaks me out, looks like a skeleton.  I remember getting this picture with Brady and thinking it was a little weird too - lol!  Obviously our babies face will be much cuter than this :)  The right picture is neat though because you can see baby's left arm is bent with it's hand touching its face.  So amazing that they are almost fully developed this early!

We did a Harmony genetic test at the 12 week appointment that came back with everything 99.7% normal and the doctor said " you are getting another healthy baby soon!"  Best words I could have heard :)

After this appointment we went full force with telling our friends and family the news!  I did my very best to make sure they heard it from us and not on Facebook, so I gave it a few weeks before turning to social media :) 

We also decided to tell Chase after our 12 week appointment that he was going to be a big brother again!  He is so excited!  Brady doesn't understand but I am thinking as it gets closer and my belly gets bigger he will at least say "baby" or something.  Good thing we waited to tell Chase because the first thing he did was tell his teachers that he and Brady would be sharing a room soon to make room for baby...man did THAT news spread like wild fire through the daycare - lol :)

2 amazing Big Brothers to be for our sweet baby!

2 of my favorite Chase baby quotes thus far:

1) Lori: "Chase do you think the baby is a boy or a girl?"

Chase: "A girl because we already have Brady so we don't need another boy."

2) Chase walked into our house and saw a pink baby outfit I had bought for a friend.  He asked me if it was for our baby.  I said no.  He said we should get one for our baby.  I told him that we don't know if ours is a girl yet.  He says, "We should have a girl because Brady is a boy and he just whines all the time." 

Too funny - this kid can crack me up!

Our next appt is at 16 weeks and then we will find out the sex in March - woo hoo! 

We will continue to pray every night for our baby to stay healthy and we can't wait for our family of 5 to be complete on July 10th, 2013!!! (I'm assuming scheduled c-section a week before my due date of July 17th but we'll see as it gets closer)