coming june 2013

We are very happy to announce that we are expecting our third child!  Baby #3 will be due sometime in the first week of June.  What a great month to have a baby.  The weather will be beautiful as the oppressive heat of Summer will not be upon us quite yet.  I will bear the burden of a large belly in the lovely season of Spring.  I really enjoy this idea.  I also like to refer to this baby as our little "june-bug".  We have been getting the inevitable questions with this pregnancy as we have with the others.  I will just go ahead and answer them here for your convenience.

Question #1: Are you excited?  Yes, we definitely are!  This was a 'planned' pregnancy.  We knew we wanted a third child and that we wanted the age gap to be roughly the same as the gap between Lyla and Cody. 

Question #2: Do you want a boy or girl...or twins???  We will be delighted with either outcome.  While I am not necessarily praying for twins, I do find myself day-dreaming about a baby nursery with two cribs and two sweetly sleeping newborn babies.  Then, I wake up from my delusions and realize how much harder it is to have two at once.  Yikes!  Another daughter would be lovely.  Another son would be fantastic.  It's a good thing that we don't have to decide because I think it would be a very difficult decision.  Lyla, on the other hand, knows what gender she would choose.  She wants a sister more than anything in the world.

Question #3: How do you feel?  I feel pretty good for being in my first trimester.  I have had some bouts of nausea, but nothing bad enough to really complain about.  I have been feeling extra tired and I do miss those days back in my pregnancy with Lyla when I could take naps almost anytime I wanted to.  Things are much different now. 

Question #4: Are Lyla and Cody excited?  Lyla is ecstatic.  She has been praying for a baby sister for months now.  She can't wait to be the big (bossy) sister to another kid.  Cody doesn't understand what's going on.  I think he will catch on a little bit more as my belly starts to grow and we explain it a bit more to him.

This being our third time announcing a pregnancy, we decided to get a little creative.  Here's what we did.  We got Lyla and Cody t-shirts that said, "BIG SIS Lyla" and "BIG BRO Cody".  Both sets of our parents and trav's brother and sister were supposed to come to our house on Monday night for our weekly bible study.  The plan was to just let everyone walk into our house and figure out the big news from the shirts.  The way it actually panned out was hilarious.  Kandice understood the moment she saw Cody's shirt.  She said, "Oh, is there something I don't know?"  The other family members did not catch on so quickly.  Our parents were there for over half an hour and no one had noticed anything.  Finally, Trav's mom came up to me and asked, "So, who is Cody a big brother to?"  I gave her a shrug of my shoulders and a smile and she knew right away.  Hugs and tears.  My mother (on the other side of the room) still hadn't caught on.  I decided enough was enough.  I picked Cody up and marched over to her.  Here was the conversation that ensued:

me: Did you see Cody's shirt?

mom: Yes, it's very cute.

me: What does it say?

mom: Big bro Cody. 

me: What does that mean? 

mom: I don't know. (confused expression)

me: If Cody is a BIG bro, that means there must be a little one...somewhere.... 

She finally got the picture.  Hugs and tears.  Then the news was out to everyone.  It was great fun watching everyone's reactions.