Playing catch up with baby #3

So this pregnancy has been a surprise from the beginning. So right around Christmas, Tyler and I talked about having a third baby.. like HARD! We went back and forth on it and ultimately decided, we were probably done, but if we had another we wouldn't "try" until Fall of 2019. We even bought a new 4-Runner and went with one without a third row because "we don't need it because we probably aren't actually going to have a third baby." Well, we celebrated Tallen's first birthday and then Tyler's grandfather unexpected passed away from a massive heart attack and I found out I was pregnant... LITERALLY ALL IN THE SAME WEEK!!!! Yeah.

We were a bit preoccupied with funeral arrangements and such to even worry about telling people. I had an appointment at 6 weeks and we saw a baby and a heart beat. 114bpm. We continued on with life and on Valentine's Day decided to announce to everyone after having a second ultrasound and everything looking good and a heart beat of 178bpm (I believe, def in the 170's). We celebrate Valentine's Day and then jump right into planning Lakelyn's 4th birthday party. I had no symptoms at all up to this point. My entire house gets hit with the stomach bug the week before her birthday and that was the only time I felt sick or got sick. A couple of days after her birthday I had a weird feeling of maybe something was wrong because I haven't been sick or had any kind of symptoms. I freaked myself out because of having a missed miscarriage before and thankfully my Dr. is amazing and had me come in for a reassurance ultrasound to make sure things were ok, sure enough they were just fine!

A few days later we celebrate Tyler's birthday and the next day his great grandfather (the father of the grandfather that just passed) passed away. Get this... his birthday was October 7th... my due date October 7th... HOW CRAZYY. So, recap that. Tyler's grandfather passes away - I find out I'm pregnant, his great grandfather passes away - I'm due on his birthday... and just another "fun fact" his grandfather and great grandfather passed away at the same time. 1:07PM was his grandfather's time of death and 1:07AM was his great grandfather's time of death and ya'll if this baby is born at 1:07 I am not sure what I will do, but how weird would that be!

Since then things (THANKFULLY) have been pretty uneventful as far as major events go anyway. I've had so many appointments and things to do that I'm not sure which direction I'm going. We had our 12 week screening for down syndrome AKA another chance to see baby ultrasound and baby's heartbeat was 150bpm and we did not get any guesses on gender. Baby has measured ahead at every ultrasound and at this one baby was almost an entire week ahead. My due date was not changed, but I still keep that in mind because when we get closer to 38/39 weeks I do not want to go over!

Even though we are not finding out the gender we decided to still use that money and do a 3D scan for this baby. We've never had a 3D scan this early before so we were not quite sure what to expect and at the first appointment, of course, baby did not cooperate at all and we got 2 creepy pictures, but heartbeat was still 151bpm. We went back a few days later and baby did better so we got some photos and still have no clue on gender!

That basically sums the entire pregnancy up so far!