Surprise! We aren't surprised

Our #3 is currently cooking.

The first two have spent hours every day asking for a baby for the past few years. That never happened the first time around. In fact, I'm not sure Atlas really understood what was happening inside me until he watched Aria being born and that was a little scary and new to him, at 2. We can ask him to this day if he remembers.

What he remembers about Aria's birth: Mommy got in a tub and the dog barked and mommy got really loud. Then everyone crowded around and daddy picked me up. Then a baby came out of mommy.

He is suddenly 8 and a half and starting to ask questions about life. I looked at Bob, "This is it, this is where we turn little kids into real live humans."

For me, learning about the birds and bees was pretty traumatic and talking about it was off limits. I know it would be denied today, but when I was about 7 I chanted a little ditty around a neighborhood child who ran to my mom to tell her I used the word "penis" and I got my mouth washed out with a bar of soap even though I was asking the whole time what the word meant. 

When I first got pregnant with Atlas my girlfriends knew that I never used the "p" word. They would tease me and make me say it 3 times in a row every time we saw each other. The first time I cried (as an adult) but before he was born I was to the point of laughing.

SO, USING CORRECT WORDS IS IMPORTANT TO ME.

I dont want my children to think their body, made by God, is in any bit shameful. It is not.

Here we go: the kids are 6 and 8, Mommy and Daddy got pregnant again, and there is a baby somehow growing in mommy's belly.

First things first, no. It is not in my belly. It is in my uterus. Only women have uterus.

Soon I will post about when we told the kids at 12 weeks. I was bumping too big to hide it anymore and they were the first to know.

That first night I showed the kids some videos of the baby growing inside a body. It's not unusual for all of us to watch videos of babies being born, but how did it get there? When Atlas saw the sperm unite with the egg he said, "Oh! So the daddy sperm happens when you kiss." Not exactly... guess we will get to that, but probably save all that for very last.

So here we go again!
Starting over, older, more patient, and we think we have this parent thing down!

We are having our third baby in the Spring of 2019!