Are there still three?
Are there still three? This has become the Fandel Motto! Let me explain. I am pregnant with triplets. Natural triplets! I mean who has triplets! We do! Let me give you a little back story about our family. Lee and I are the type of people who like to plan and have a timeline! Lee and I were married in Jan. 2004. We moved to the wonderful city of Nashville and love it here. After 4 years of marriage we had our first blessing-Chase (planned). We had our second child Mason in 2011 (planned). Our life was coming along just like we had "planned". Are you seeing a pattern here. We are planning everything out and it is going great! I am now a stay at home mom to two wonderful boys. One being 4 and one being 17 months until.....well, we had decided that we were good and our family was complete...just like we planned. So we got rid of all the baby clothes, all the baby toys and had decided that we were going to be a family of 4. Perfect! One day in Aug. I noticed something was different- I felt different. Surprise-Pregnant. NOT PLANNED! After a couple of days of going through shock and trying to come to terms with being a family of five. We were getting excited! Went to my first Drs. apt on Aug. 18th. Lee was out of town and this was suppose to be a normal routine ultrasound. You know those ones were they do the ultrasound and say congrats you have a baby! :) This didn't go that way. When I was talking to the Dr I let her know that this was a oops but we were excited. I told her she just better not tell me there are twins. LOL. haha. Kidding around. So then we enter the ultrasound room-that's when our life changed forever! My Doctor got quiet, my nurse went pale and I was scared something was really wrong. Then she said those words "Um, there are three babies". Of course, I then said that's not okay and you are joking. She informed me that she wouldn't joke about this. That's when the tears started flowing. I didn't know what to think and honestly couldn't comprehend what just happened. No...this is not Okay. This is not what we had planned. I asked my Doctor to stay in the room while I called my husband. I mean who tells there husband-Oh by the way theres three!! So I dialed the number still crying and he answered. I started the conversation with "are you alone?". "No" he answered " I am with coworkers driving to grab lunch." "Um, are you driving" I said..I mean seriously I am about to tell my husband he is going to have three babies and didn't want him to run off the road! I then told him the news. "There's three babies"!. He said "three" I told him I wasn't kidding and there was three. He then just kept repeating the number three over and over. He then asked to call me back. Still in the car with his fellow co-workers who didn't even know we were pregnant. He called back in like no time. When I answered all I heard was "ARE THERE STILL THREE?" I will never forget his reaction. Of course, he was excited and shocked! Once I finally got in the car and was able to tell my family and friends-I got a lot of different reactions but all ended with "you guys will be fine and you are great parents." I just couldn't understand-why us? I realized that God had other plans for our family. He is planning our life! We like to say God has thrown us for a triple loop. I am now 20 weeks pregnant. The Doctors think we are having 2 girls and one boy. We are excited and still have no clue what we are about to get into. We are now going to be a family who has to do call ahead seating when we go out to eat. We can now get group discounts. Also, we might even have to pay the restaurant gratitude tax automatically. Who knows we might never see another restaurant. Out of all this craziness and uncertainty, one thing is for certain we are now not planning our lives we are just along for the journey! Just hanging on...one kid at a time! :)
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