Announcing Number 3!

Van Hoose offspring number 3 is brewing! We've announced it on Facebook and told pretty much everyone but I realized I haven't announced it on the blog.  So, even if it's just for my own records (as this has become both my scrapbook and journal), here's the big announcement. Also, a couple of photos. :)

We've been wanting to have another baby for a couple of months and were disappointed to find out near the beginning of September that we weren't pregnant.  I was really sick and ended up going into Instacare and while there they ran a pregnancy test that came back negative. A week and a half later I had my annual OB/GYN appointment and was really weirded out because my period was really late and it is usually never late, though it had been the month before too. The sweet nurse decided to run another pregnancy test, just to be sure.  Not five minutes later she came in the room with the positive test results! I was so relieved and excited that I started to cry.  The first test had just been too early.  I was only 5 weeks along.
 

 

We kept it to ourselves for a couple of weeks but we are both just so horrible at keeping secrets.  The kids and I made these shirts for them to wear and that's how they announced it to my mom, Spencer's parents, and my grandparents.  We didn't see my dad for quite awhile and I wanted to tell them in person.  The first chance I got was on Halloween.

At the beginning on November, I had my first baby appointment and got to glimpse this little one for the first time.  Here are the ultrasound pics.  The best one is in the middle. You can see the profile of the baby with the head on the left of the photo.  The baby is growing right on schedule. Oh! And the due date is June 6th! My 31st birthday! How cool is that!?

 

 This has been my hardest pregnancy so far - I have been a lot sicker than I ever was with Lucy or Sammy but they have been patient with their "boring Mommy." I've also had some help from friends, family, and, of course, Spencer. Now that I'm in the second trimester, I've noticed the nausea and stomach pains getting less often.  I've lost 11 pounds since I found out I was pregnant too, which is actually kind of a nice side effect.  I started way higher than I wanted to and higher than I did with either Lucy or Sammy so it will give me a bit of a cushion. We are excited to meet this little one. Lucy has already decided it's a girl and has started picking out names. ;)