Baby #3

As many of you have probably heard by now, we are expecting baby #3 in April! I’ve definitely been behind on posting but still try to keep this blog somewhat up to date, and wanted to make sure to document my thoughts and feelings here.
While we are of course extremely excited for another child to come to our family, this was the first time I found out I was pregnant and was actually 100% scared. I was thrilled to find out but felt like, oh no I really hope I can be a good mom to 3 kids so close in age. People always say you figure it out, but I don’t want to just figure it out! I want to be a good mom, which is increasingly tough the more children you have.

However, I do also believe it is so good for kids to have siblings. There is no better way for children to learn how to share—to share things, to share mom and dad’s time, and to share attention. I also think it has already taught Emerson so much about caring and loving for someone, to have Genevieve so close to him. He always helps me with her and sings to her when she’s sad, he gets toys for her and food for her, and they play together all the time. I honestly feel like having two close together was one of the best things we’ve ever done, and I’m just praying I feel that way about having #3 close as well.
Our first two are 20 months apart and these 2 and 3 will be 21 months. We have never been so excited and scared all at once!

I took a test one day while Mitch was at work. I didn’t want to deliver the news to him over the phone while he was stressed about work projects, so I decided to wait until FHE that evening. I went to the cutest little cupcake shop in Maple Grove and put in a special order. They added writing to the tops of the cupcakes to say: Mitch, Shannon, Emerson, Genevieve, Baby #3.

It was so hard not telling Mitch when he got home from work. We had dinner as usual, cleaned up, and then had FHE. I told Mitch we had a special treat for FHE and brought out the cupcakes for everyone. At first he said, “oh that’s so cool they put our names on them,” but didn’t notice the last cupcake that said “Baby #3.” I said, “yeah, what do they say?” He read them and lit up—“Are you serious?!!” He shouted. We thought for sure I wasn’t pregnant that month because I’d been feeling so crampy, so he said he’d written it off. It made the news so exciting! To be honest I was shocked too. Emerson shouted: baby in mommy’s tummy! It was a really fun night together as a family.


To tell our parents we recorded a video of Emerson saying, “There’s a baby in mommy’s tummy!” I tried to upload it here but the volume for some reason is really low. Dang! I'm not good at putting videos on the blog. It’s really short but cute.

More to come soon on how sick I’ve been and other updates. Why can’t I just be one of those women who doesn’t get sick? (You know who you are!)