#3 on the way

Today I am 16 weeks pregnant with our third (and for sure last!) baby!  I don't have any pictures or anything special to share but today I have been feeling this little being flutter around inside me like never before!

I have been feeling little kicks here and there for a couple weeks now but today there is just something different.  This little peanut is just dancing away and it's such an amazing feeling.  I've felt it hundreds of times before between the three children I have carried inside of me but I am cherishing these moments now especially as I know they will be the last ones I feel.

I am officially due on July 4, 2014 but am going to do things a little different this time around.  We found out with both Grace and Kyler the sex at our 20 week ultrasound but we are not going to find out this time around.  Also, we induced both of the first two (and for very good reasons both times and I will NEVER apologize for it) but am going to try to let this one come naturally.  Granted, things happen and life never goes as planned so I am open to whatever comes our way.

I am praying for a non-high risk pregnancy this time.  I haven't experienced that yet and I would love a calm, normal one without all the extra tests, monitors, checks, money, worry that comes with high risk pregnancies.

I have been so sick with this one and it's definitely been my hardest pregnancy to date but I am thankful that so far our baby is healthy, and me too!  It's going to be difficult to stay that way with the flu going around and people not being considerate enough to stay home when they are sick, but we are doing what we can!

But this feeling of this baby moving around inside of me--what peace it is starting to bring me!  You never know for sure if your baby is okay until you start to feel the constant kicks and movements.  This is such a fun time as none of them hurt yet as they are just little flutters but they are the definite movements of a baby.  I only have 24 more weeks left to experience pregnancy before this stage of my life is over.  Despite the pains, aches, and hardness pregnancy brings to me I am hoping to relish and cherish this time.