YES, we are proudly expecting our third little Palattao!!! I'm 13 wks and am due July 9th, 2012. :) Patrick is going to be a BIG BROTHER and Elise a BIGGER SISTER!
Aaaaand...this pregnancy is kicking my butt! Thus, no updates since September - YIKES!
Each pregnancy has added another level of "morning sickness"...Elise = all day light nausea, Patrick = nausea + getting sick each morning, this babe = LOTS of all day nausea and worse after 2pm + multiple times of getting sick.
In addition to this, the fatigue has been the same, however coming home from work to, or being home with, Elise and Patrick adds another level of fatigue. Greg has been super helpful and understanding. We haven't really had a homemade meal but maybe once in 3 months, when I come home and need to go to bed before the kids, he doesn't blink an eye. I pretty much have been going to bed between 6:45 and 8:30. Tonight might be a record :) As you can tell, I am starting to feel better!
Poor Elise has been super concerned and loving - before we told them, she said "OK, Mom, I think you need to see Dr. Tio (our pediatrician) cuz you've been sick for lots and lots of days."
Before we told them, she kept asking me "why your tummy is getting bigger" - yes, I am ONLY a few months along, but the 3rd baby has started showing a bit sooner. One day, I was reading with the kids on the couch and Patrick pulled up my shirt from my belly and kissed my belly and said "Mama, der's a baby in nere...I kiss it". Really, Mr. Intuitive?
When we were going to tell them, I imagined a big deal. Not so much. We read them a book and said "we will have a baby born in the summer." Elise just looked at me. When I asked her what she thought that meant, she said "Oh Daddy decided to finally put a baby in your tummy." (The back story on that is that in Sept, Greg forgot his Gopher tickets and I called him before he was 5 min away. When he came back to get them, she handed them to him and said "OK, Dada you definitely owe Mommy another baby.") Patrick looked at my belly and touched my boobs and said "der's a baby in nere."
Multiple hours later she said, "Mom if we have a baby boy, Patrick will have to share his baby clothes with it. But if it's a girl, we'll get to shop for new girl clothes." When I told her we'd share HER clothes, she said "Oh no Mom, it's so much more fun to buy cute little girl clothes, OK?"
On that note, I promise lots more updates from 2012...what we've been up to, kid-isms, Christmas, etc. For, now it's 8:32 and I'm off to bed and then getting up 5 times in the first 2 hrs of going to bed. :)
