I did a thing...

Blogger, I have sinned. It's been eleven months since my last confess- er, blog.

I can't believe it has been that long.  To be fair, I am coming out of quite the year long haze.

You see, I did a thing:

In October of last year, I found out that we were going to have a Baby (Yay!) And since no one seems to have issues with asking such a rude and personal question, I will just tell you that YES it was on purpose.  Baby was hoped and prayed for and 6 weeks later, digital confirmation.

So we are pregnant, then what?

Then we went to bed at 8pm every night.  I was exhausted and Matt didn't mind the extra sleep.  I didn't write or even update social media much because creativity level was almost null.  I just sat there eating a lot and wondering if I did the right thing with the twins turning 9 this year.

I secretly suspected that Baby was stealing all my awesome for herself and later, this theory proved correct.

It turns out, we did the right thing.  We did it all differently than we thought.

The plan was:
-Get pregnant and take 6 months to a year to do so.
-Eat super healthy and have zero caffeine for 9 months.
-Not find out the sex
-Not tell anyone the chosen name
-Have a VBAC calmly while listening to classic rock

What had happened was:
-Got pregnant immediately
-1st trimester: eat hamburgers.
2nd trimester: eat the steaks.
3rd trimester: eat ALL the things.
Have caffeine every day because I will die without coffee.

-We lasted longer than I thought with not finding out the sex.  But we caved and I am so glad we did!  If I had done a gender neutral nursery beforehand and then had my girl not realizing that I was carrying my first  girl, we would have stopped on the way home from the hospital to buy a whole new wardrobe and nursery. 

-The moment we found out and announced that baby was a She (Spoiler Alert, Baby was a "She") we told everyone our name because I loved it.  And it made her seem real. And it was wonderful.  And there was never a discussion. The moment her name came out of my mouth, Matt and I both loved it.  Another name was not discussed after.

-I had a repeat c-section. I lived in fear of preterm labor the whole pregnancy. I had it twice  including a 10 day NICU experience with the twins in 2007.  Well at 39 weeks with not enough progress and 5 weeks of prodromal labor, it was time to relent.  The c-section went beautifully.  My doctor is amazing. 

And thus you have our 6th child. Our tiny human. 

Lorelai Marie. 

She was 6 weeks old yesterday and she is perfect. A wonderful and well-tempered baby who loves to sleep and is literally fuzzyheaded loveliness in human format.  

Her siblings adore her and the amount of help they have given me is nothing short of amazing.  We are madly in love with life right now.

I did a thing.

A wonderfully perfect thing.