Pregnancy announcement

Pregnancy Diary: Telling Sadie about Baby #3

Wednesday August 14th, 2024

We finally told Sadie about the baby! We told her on Sunday night, when I was a little over 11 weeks along. I knew she was going to be excited but I didn’t know she was going to be this excited. We got home from church on Sunday evening and I sat down and drew a picture of our family and added an extra little person.

She asked who it was and I pointed at each figure and said “This is Dad, this is Mom, this is Sadie, this is Decky, and this is the baby we’re going to have.”

She immediately smiled so hard and then hugged me. Jimmy was able to get a quick video of the special moment!

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Pregnancy Diary: Finding Out About Baby #3

Welcome to my first pregnancy diary post for baby #3! These are a series of posts written throughout my pregnancy that are just stream of consciousness-style writing about the emotional and physical journey through the blessing of carrying our child! This first post was written the day I found out I was expecting, so it’s truly all over the place! Thanks for joining me on this journey 🙂

Tuesday June 25th, 2024

So… I’m pregnant for the third time! Is this even real life? I was not expecting to be pregnant when I took a test today. I just didn’t really have any inkling that I was expecting except for the fact that I had a weird, bitter taste in my mouth yesterday and today.

This morning, the kids and I went to our favorite place: the creek. It’s a trail near our house with a beautiful creek. We had such a nice morning. Sadie got stung by a bee on her foot yesterday and didn’t want to walk, so she sat in the stroller and held Mordecai on her lap. The weather was perfect (70s and sunny) and the kids were happy just throwing rocks in the water. I felt so content! My heart was full just doing the mom thing with my precious children.

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