So we found out we were pregnant with baby number 4 in July and are now 18 weeks along. Being that this pregnancy was unplanned and AceLynn is still so young it was hard to get excited about at first but as time goes on we are getting more and more excited to meet this new little one! We had an ultrasound at St. Lukes at almost 14 weeks and they told us they were 90% sure it's a boy which is exactly what we would have hoped for. Pregnancy gets harder every time and this being my fifth pregnancy my body feels like this might be the last pregnancy it can handle so we would be glad to welcome a son!
Since finding out we are pregnant with our fourth we have had to change several things in our lives to simplify and prepare for having four and having them all so close together. For one thing we realized that our truck wouldn't seat us all so we had to sell that. Since we most likely wouldn't even be able to take a new baby camping next summer and hardly used the trailer this past summer we decided the best thing to do would be to sell it. (There's no reason to make payments on something that we aren't using and wouldn't even have a truck to pull either). Also we made the hard decision to re-home our recently acquired family dog. He had some quirks that were, quite frankly, making our lives harder and with this baby on the way we thought it might be better for him and us to find a family that would have more time to train him and spend with him. We are at this point trying to figure out how to situate our bedrooms to accommodate three girls and a boy and possibly still have room for guests (good thing we have a while to figure it out since it has gone back and forth)! We feel like with some planning, we might actually be able to handle what God has planned for us with this fourth baby.
The girls are growing like weeds....
Aurora- is going to be 5 in a couple months and she has gotten to the age where helping mommy maybe isn't so fun anymore. She loves to draw and do crafts and is quite an amazing little artist! One day she told her dad that she new how to say balloon in Spanish and when he asked what it was she said "water-balloon", it was so funny!
Harper- is 3 1/2 and she loves to do whatever Aurora is doing. I will hear her reading books to herself and making up the words as she goes along or she will make up little stories about her barbies. It is so fun to watch her when she doesn't know I'm there! One day when we were walking around looking at Halloween decorations she said the funniest thing "is that skeleton holding a Skel-phone." We all died laughing!
AceLynn- is crawling pretty fast now and standing without holding onto anything (I predict she will be walking within a month). She is also working on her sixth tooth! She hates baby food now and wants to eat whatever everyone else is eating which can prove difficult since she doesn't have the molars to chew certain things but then again I am glad she isn't super picky! She won't say words on command but I swear she says words randomly. Like when I've given her a sippy-cup of juice she said as clear as day "juice" but since then I can't prompt her to say it again. I've also heard her say momma but only when she's crying and mad and at no other possible time!
We love our girls!
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