Munchkin mania: Capturing the adventures of raising 2 boys under 2. Whelp, in a few more months, this will no longer be the case! We will be graduating to capturing the adventures of 3 under 3!! Jason and I could not be more excited to make this announcement! My boys, however.. that was a different story! Notice the picture.. thank goodness for photo shop. No one wanted to smile. Owen has puffy eyes from crying so much.. you'd think I was torturing him to get a picture! In the end, I had to bribe him with a couple of snacks, but I eventually was able to get a suitable shot of them both and merge it into one!
So. 3 babies under 3. I'd assume baby #3 will likely join us in late August, as both my boys were born at 37weeks. With that being said, that would give us a 25mo old, a 13mo old and a newborn! Life sure will become quite busy, and entertaining, but at the same time absolutely blessed and full of joy!
I was actually really nervous to "announce" this on Facebook.. but, surprisingly I got only positive responses! Not everyone understands having babies close together. And, a lot of times people don't quite know how to respond to it. This is a huge pet peeve of mine.. but I digress. But, I will say, our announcement was well received and we were given lots of congratulations and best wishes, which is fantastic!
A lot of people did assume that baby #3 was also a surprise, but, actually, he/she was very much planned! Funny side story.. once we decided we were going to try for #3, I invested in buying a batch of Wondfo pregnancy tests through amazon. I admit, I can be a little POAS crazy. I like to test as soon as the 2 week window ends, and continue testing until I know for sure it's a no! So, 50 Wondfo's seemed appropriate :) Anyway, month 2 of trying, and wham! I got a positive. New years day, actually. (Actually, another side note.. I had gotten positives sooner, but had tossed them in the trash before allowing them to sit long enough! Note to any other Wondfo users.. WAIT the allotted time before checking! I assumed they'd be like FRERs and the line would show up almost immediately.. nope!). Anyway, so I got a positive, YAY! For some random reason (probably because I couldn't believe how quickly it happened!), I was googling the accuracy information of Wondfos, and I stumbled across a few comments about the batch I was using having false positives. Instantly, my heart sank thinking I may have gotten my hopes up for nothing.. so, what does any hormonal early pregnant woman do?? I made my husband POAS =) 5 minutes later, he comes back to check asking "So, what's the verdict.. am I pregnant?"... Thankfully, he was not, and I immediately felt better! He's such a trooper.. how many men do you know that would pee on a stick to appease their wives?? Just another reason why I love him so!
Anyway, back to our decision to go for 3U3.. After I had Owen and returned back to work full time things were tough. I was very unhappy. Perhaps a combination of post partum hormones going crazy (and, shortly after pregnancy hormones!!), but regardless.. it was really hard. There were several car rides spent sitting in traffic crying.. instead of spending time with my son, I was stuck in a car for 3+ hours a day. Sure, we could move if we wanted to.. but I love our home.. we picked this house as a place to start our family.. a place to settle down.. a job may not be forever, but a place to lay your roots could possibly be.. anyway, the 9 months I worked in between having Owen and having Aidan were really, really difficult. After lots of conversations, we had agreed that if I wasn't able to switch to part time at work, I would step back from my career for a while, and focus on our family. It was best for me and my mental health, and for our boys.
Part time being approved was like a blessing.. it allowed me to have the best of both worlds.. it still allows me to have the best of both worlds. Financially, I don't feel like dead weight to my husband.. intellectually I'm still get the stimulation I need.. and as a mother, I'm home with my boys 4 days a week to nurture and love them the way that I want. It has been SUCH a dramatic difference this time around than it was the first time. For that reason.. we decided to do our 3rd now. I have no idea how long part time will last.. but, what I do know is that this setup is absolutely glorious!
Plus.. there are other added bonuses to having your babies close in age.. bonuses I didn't really realize until I had Owen and Aidan. Everyone talks about how kids close in age will be "best friends".. and, perhaps that may not be true for all siblings, but for my boys the bond they have established so far is amazing. Aidan lights up the second Owen is in the room; he giggles and laughs and babbles at him! Owen spends 1/4 of his day hugging and kissing on his brother. They both absolutely adore one another. I really think that because Owen was just a year when Aidan was born, he was too young to understand the concept of jealousy. So bringing a new baby home wasn't much of a change for him. It was just someone else to love and play with, which has been incredible! I truly do hope for the same reaction when we bring #3 home!!
As for #3.. hubby and I have decided that we will not be finding out the baby's gender! So many people have raved about how amazing being "team green" is, and I really think that we would enjoy that surprise. There are so few surprises in life that are joyful and amazing regardless of the turnout, but this certainly is one of them. But, if I had to take a guess.. I feel pretty confident that this baby is a boy. I don't know why, I just.. feel it! Which I think is why the idea of team green this time is so appealing to me.. I feel like inside I already know, and I know that I have everything I could possibly need already, so why not wait and see? Of course, then there's the flip side.. what if I'm wrong?? But, like I keep telling hubby.. what do you *really* need in those first few weeks if it were to turn out to be a girl?? Nothing really.. we could make it work.
We shall see!! Our anatomy is the end of the month... for now, healthy baby is all we're hoping for :) Hooray for baby #3!!! A wild ride for sure, but GOSH we sure are so excited!!
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