Once Upon A Time...

... there was a boy and a girl that met each other, fell madly in love with each other, and got married.
They were quite young, and wanted to have time to enjoy each other and grow together before growing their family, so they said they'd wait about 5 years to have a baby. They also really pictured themself being a 1 child family. They often dreamed about having one child and living life that way.
Well, they started itching to have their little baby about 3 1/2 years into their marriage. Especially the girl. It got to the point that she would tear up when she'd hear about other people having a baby, because she wanted that so bad, too.
And it seemed the timing was as right as it would ever be. So they went for it. And after the first month of not being on birth control, they had some pretty exciting news! (A bit sooner than anticipated!)
9 months later, 4 1/2 years after they got married, they had a beautiful little boy. And their family was complete. And they decided that, yes, 1 child was perfect. They felt good about that.
So good, in fact, that the girl got a pretty long term birth control put in effect. An IUD. And they wouldn't have to think about birth control again for 10 years. And that was fine, because they were done having babies. Their family was perfect and complete.
And then, one day, she realized that something was off... or the calendar was wrong? Or why did she feel so tired? Nauseous??
She bought a pregnancy test, knowing the result would be negative, because, hey! she had an IUD in place! But much to her surprise, she was pregnant!
It took a little while to get used to the idea, but then the 2 of them became ecstatic. Their baby was now 1 1/2 and they felt it was going to be fun having 2 little ones about 2 years apart. But now their family was definitely complete.
Very sadly, that precious little baby didn't tolerate the removal of the IUD and the girl miscarried.
This was devastating because they had been given this surprise, they got used to the idea, and had actually become ecstatic about it, picking out names already, rearranging their house in their minds to figure out which room the baby would get and where the little boy would go.
And then it was all gone and taken.
But now the boy and girl were determined to have a second child because they had gotten so excited about this new little arrival.
This time around, pregnancy didn't happen quite so easy as the other 2 times. The boy and the girl tried for a year to get pregnant. And this was a hard year, their little boy was getting older, and they felt they had gotten pregnant so easily the other 2 times, why was this not working this time. And the girl realized her emotions were probably not all in the right place and even physically her body probably wasn't all the way healed from the IUD and miscarriage.
After a year of trying to get pregnant, the girl was emotionally exhausted from it, and decided enough! They would just be a one child family. That was good enough before, it was good enough now. And they were blessed with their little boy, which is more than a lot of people can imagine anyway.
She told her husband she wanted to go back onto birth control because even though they were not 'trying' anymore (and hadn't been for a month now), it was still a roller coaster each month. So they agreed, they would go back on birth control.
The next morning, they found out they were pregnant.
Shouts for joy and leaps and bounds were made!
The long awaited for little one was on the way!
And the girl was so excited to be pregnant again and experience child birth again. And she cherished it, because she knew it would be the last time she would ever be pregnant.
And even though she was throwing up all the time, just like her first pregnancy, and even when she lost 15 pounds from all her throwing up, she still cherished it. Because it would be the last time a sweet little baby would make her body react this way.
And they had another sweet little boy, just like they both wanted. And now their family was perfectly complete. Finished growing. 100% done.
And when this sweet baby would wake up at night, she'd tell herself, "cherish this night time with your baby, because it will be the last baby to ever need you during the night."
The girl would talk about how they were totally done and never again having any more.
And the boy would say the same thing.
And together, they would laugh when they'd hear of friends getting pregnant by surprise, because they couldn't imagine that!
They also were waiting for the boy to get his health care so he could get snipped. (You see, he just moved to Canada from the US and had to wait to get his permanent resident status in order to get health care.)
Well, they got a letter saying when that would happen. And before they even actually had his green card, they made a doctor's appointment for him because they had already been waiting longer than they wanted to. So, the appointment was made. And soon enough, they'd have 'forever' birth control.
And then, the girl started feeling nauseous and tired again. And was the calendar off? Ya, it had to be. She thought she must have counted something wrong?
So, the boy went and got a pregnancy test for her at the store, laughing the whole way, knowing it was a waste of $20 because she wasn't actually pregnant. They had been very careful to not get pregnant because they were waiting for his doctor's appointment, and done having babies.
And the girl, too, thought it was all in her head. And she wasn't actually having any symptoms, she was just thinking she was having symptoms.
Until, that is, she peed on a stick.
And it told her, in plain pink and white, that she was pregnant. With #3.
SURPRISE!!!

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We're due sometime in the middle of December, and we're absolutely ecstatic about our little surprise!!