If you are following along and reading my birth stories in order (one and two here), you will start to notice a heavy trend. Our third child was due at the beginning of May (third May due date) and we actually opted to find out the gender this time. We delayed the reveal by letting my mom open a gift a friend prepared so that the whole family could find out together at Christmas that year. My husband and I didn't even know. I felt strongly that it was a boy though. No gender reveal party here, just a simple gift and fun surprise to share together. We joked that if it was another girl, we would be done. My husband didn't want to risk having three girls if we had a fourth child. (He loves girls, three just seemed a lot to him. ha!) Make sure you read until the very end... be prepared, sweetness overload!

Almost exactly two years after our first child was born, we were expecting our second little one. They both had late May due dates (May 23rd and May 30th respectively). I don’t like being pregnant in the heat of summer, okay?… Continue reading