Baby #4 Is On The Way!

Have you ever been sitting in your living room while your kids are bouncing from couch to couch screaming and fighting and thought to yourself hey… Let’s have one more kid!?

No? Just us?

Well that definitely happened for us and we decided let’s just add one more to the chaos. I guess life was getting a little too calm for us…

Now I’m sitting here a few months later over the hump of just about the worst morning sickness and all of the world thinking what the hell did I get myself into?

My kids are completely over the moon! They cannot wait for this new baby brother or sister to get here. They’re planning out all the things they’re going to do together and what their rooms will look like. I think we made their entire year with this new news.

My husband and I are just as excited as I was fourth time parent nerves kind of start to kick in.

On top of the counting down the days until I get a cuddle a squishy little baby, I’m sitting here trying to remember what the baby stage is like. I mean it’s been five years since our youngest was a baby. I know that doesn’t seem like long but in parenting years it’s like an entire lifetime away.

If you checked my Google search history you would see the wildest things already. How old do babies have to be to try solid foods? What is that weird poop thing that happens in the beginning with babies? How do you wipe a baby girl? How can I make sure I have a calm baby?

It’s like I forgot everything!

My friends swear up-and-down that it’s like riding a bike. Soon as that baby enters the world everything will come back to us.

I’m sure they’re right I mean we have done this three times already. That doesn’t mean it prevents me from Google searching anything crazy. I’m sure that will continue until this baby gets here… And if I’m really honest it’ll continue even after the baby is here. I love me some Google searches.

There’s one more thing with this whole fourth kid deal... i’ll never forget transitioning from 2 to 3 kids. The chaos was definitely adjustment but the hardest thing for me or simply the logistics. How do you grocery shop with three kids? How do you go anywhere with three kids? How can you squeeze three kids into a little car?

I swear I didn’t grocery shop alone for at least the first three months. Then I discovered the double carts at target and Costco. Not to mention an online grocery delivery that has literally saved my entire life.

I’ve talked to a few of my friends that have multiple kids and they tell me going from 3 to 4 is enough. You’ve already figured out the logistics of being out numbered so what’s one more?

I can do chaos. Heck I have three boys under the age of nine years old and we do chaos just fighting this house. What does it mean my neighbor so hear me screaming at my kids all the time… That’s a daily occurrence but hey they’re all still alive and so am I.

Now I’m trying to go through all the baby things that I have left over (which is hardly anything other than clothes because I swore to myself and my husband that I was done having kids after Lucas). I’m trying to look through the list of things we’ve actually used in the past versus things that were luxuries and stay in the box. You know what I’m talking about those things everyone swears you need as a parent but you don’t ever find useful in your own life.

As soon as I get an extra minute I’ll share a list of the things I actually think are useful when it comes to babies.

For now I said on my phone adding things to my Amazon registry and trying to figure out what this life with four kids will look like. Not to mention, if I have a girl my husband is in huge trouble. I have already skipped over so many little girl things that will of course be coming essentials for me if we have a boy it’ll be easy to buy new things. I’ve got the clothes, I’ve got the toys, and I just need to pick up a few essentials. If I have a girl, my very first girl in all of existence… Oh boy. This girl is in for it. Everything instantly becomes an essential and she will have stock and headbands, bows, leggings, dresses… I’m literally holding myself back from going on Amazon just to create a second Amazon registry for just in case it’s a girl.

Don’t get me wrong I’m going to be over the moon if we have a boy but I’ll probably lose my mind if I have a girl!

Moms and dads out there, what was it like for you adding a fourth baby? Did you survive? Are you still alive?