Seriously? It has been WAY too long since I've blogged last, sorry! I've been slowly collecting pictures from my mom's house since most of the last few months have been caught on her camera. There's so much to catch up on, I think I'm feeling a bit too overwhelmed to capture it all! I promise, someday, you'll see my kids in their Easter outfits :)
So, right now, I suppose I can update you on baby #3. No pictures required :) My goal is to have Andy take one this week. Hold me to it, k? Well, today is Sunday so I'm 22.5 weeks pregnant. We went for our 20 week ultrasound and it was confimed last week at my doctor's appt. that everything looks great! We stuck to our guns and we did not find out if a little boy or little girl will be breaking the tie in our little family. Someone's going to be outnumbered, whether it's us girls or them boys! We won't know until that last day and I'm so excited and happy we made the choice to keep it a surprise until then. I only feel better and better about my decision. I'm not really sure how I came upon this crazy choice, other than it just felt right this time.
I'm feeling great with this pregnancy. I was super de duper tired in the beginning which is kinda how I roll. I've felt great since then though and I can easily say this has been my easiest 2nd trimester. Baby is moving around like a crazy person and yesterday Andy felt baby move for the first time. I've been able to watch my belly dance if I'm really patient. No rolling yet, just twitches. I'm noticing baby pushing out and has moved out of the corner of my belly it's been parked in. I had a doctor's appoinment on Thursday and things looked good for the most part. My blood pressure is up, which is pretty abnormal for me. My blood pressure stayed picture perfect with both Grayson and Avery so it is odd that it's already creeping up. I went form 112/70 to 130/70. Not horrible but something to keep an eye on. He said just to watch for vision changes or dizziness and otherwise we'll just watch it. I'm really hoping it stays put or better yet slides back down because it is way too early in the pregnancy to be having bp problems.
I've really been getting excited about this baby and having a newborn again. I have a hard time putting to words how I feel about all of this without sounding like a horrible mom, but I'll try. Our kids aren't super close, but I have consistently been pregnant and/or nursing since February 2008. That's over three years. By the time my babies are 9 months at the oldest, we're pregnant again. Which, from a gal who took forever to get pregnant the first time, it's amazing. And what we've planned and are grateful that it's worked out. All of this leads to the fact that my babies are still babies when I get pregnant with another baby. So, although I'm so excited everytime I find out I'm pregnant and pray hard for that baby and look forward to a new life being added to our family, my arms are not yet empty, my nursing bras are not packed away and the maternity clothes have only made it as far as the garage :) So, it's around this time, after my last baby turns 1 and I'm halfway through the pregnancy, that seeing tiny babies make my heart flutter and I can't wait to meet our new baby and see what he or she is going to look like, etc, etc. I have all of these feelings always but they intensify for sure as I see my youngest look not so much like a baby anymore. Plus, although it's only been a couple of months since I've nursed, it feels like it was forever ago. It's amazing how quickly things change over that first year of life. This time last year I had a BABY. I can barely remember burping her after a nighttime feeding or what it was like to not sleep through the night, oh wait, I can remember that since she just recently started doing that :) Now, don't get me wrong, my oldest child of my three is the age of a lot of people's babies, so I definately am not out of the small children stage! But, it's a lot easier to envision adding another baby and all that entails when your not nursing a non-walking 9 month old when you find out! I hope this doesn't sound like I don't want this baby or that we aren't excited when we find out, because that is the opposite of the truth. I guess I'm just trying to compare so I can explain how excited I am to be at the point I'm at right now. It's crazy because I look at Grayson compared to when Avery was born and he has grown and changed so much since then. Then I look at Avery and can't believe that she'll be the age Grayson was when she was born when this baby is born. She seems so much younger compared to him then. But, she's not and in a few months she won't be. Time changes everything so quickly.
Avery obviously has no idea what's going on and doesn't even notice my belly. Grayson is however, also growing a baby in his tummy, so he kind of gets it, but not really. Every now and then he'll fall down or bump his tummy and I hear, "Oh, mama, my baby!" It's pretty cute. He's so great with Avery and even better with little babies so it will be interesting to see how he is with this new one. I think I'll have to worry more about him wanting to pick up or hold the baby then I did with him and Avery. Since he's older he thinks he can do those sorts of things. I'm not sure how Avery will react to a new one. She gets jealous when I or someone else has a baby in their arms, but she doesn't really act out, you can just tell she's not a fan. Grayson started calling me Heather all the time when we brought Avery home (another example of how much changes within a few months, I can't imagine Avery being able to switch from saying her mama babble to calling me Heather!). We'll see what Avery does.
All and all, we're doing well here at Casa de Keatts. We're enjoying summer, minus the hot weather (me), and loving being all together as much as possible.
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