BIG news

     After over a year of trying, we finally got the good news that we were pregnant! I was beginning to think that maybe it wasn't possible. We are getting older and Phil had received so much trauma to his pelvis that maybe it just wasn't in the cards for us. But turns out that I was wrong! Our due date is December 11th, not a month that I would have picked to have a baby, but we will take this babe that we tried to get here for so long anytime! 

     We waited until about 15 weeks to tell the kids and they were all SO excited. The way we hinted that we were pregnant was by setting up a big girl bed in the boys room for Lola. We made them guess why we would need to do that. It didn't take Boyd very long to figure it out. Lola and Boyd wanted a sister and Brewer wanted another brother. 

    A few weeks later we were able to all go to the 20 week comprehensive ultrasound and find out! Brewer did a little fist pump and said "Yesss!" when the technician told us we are having another boy. It took Lola a little convincing and a few days to convince her that she's getting a brother, not a sister. But she is still insisting that he needs everything pink. Just the other day we were visiting Grandma Great and she pulled out all her baby  quilts so we could pick one out. Lola liked and wanted every pink one, so I choose 3 quilts that were not pink and had her pick one from those. It made us so even more excited to meet Baby Tad. Oh, Baby Tad. That's not his name, but that is what we call him all the time. After Steve and Rachel came to visit us, Lola just started calling him that. I think it derived from Baby Ty, but it stuck and this little boy that we are waiting for has been called Baby Tad by everyone ever since. As for a real name, we are still working on it, although we're pretty sure we have the middle name nailed down. 

    At the 20 week ultrasound we found out that the little guy has hydrophronosis of the left kidney, just like Brewer did. The chambers of the heart looked really good, but knowing that heart defects usually have other birth defects, made me start to worry. It felt like we were headed down the same path with Brewer. We had a fetal echo scheduled at Primary Children's about a month later, so I tried my best to keep a cool head and not think about it much. That worked, unless someone spurred my thoughts in that direction and then I became a bit of a mess for a while. Thankfully at the fetal echo everything looked awesome and the cardiologist reviewing the study really reassured us that his heart was healthy. SUCH GREAT NEWS! Now we are just watching the kidney with follow up ultrasounds at the OB office in Idaho Falls about once a month. 

    A side note, Lola has done extremely well in her big girl bed! She transitioned like a champ! Sometimes she wakes up earlier and then wakes up the boys, but I love having them all in there together. It's a sweet sight to see!