Careful what your kids pray for!

So the other day at lunch Kenzi was blessing our food and all the sudden she says, "and bless that my mom will have one more baby," she looks at me real quick with this look on her face like "whoops" then she hurries and finishes her prayer. I was trying not to let her see me laugh because her face was hilarious. I said," what did you say?" She said "I always say that but I usually don't say it out loud." I was cracking up. It is funny because lately the 3 older kids have been saying little things about one more baby!
As most everyone that knows us knows that we are done having kids. Well I won't go into too much detail but in January I went in for my yearly check up and was (to say the least) SHOCKED to find out that I was almost 3 months prego. No, I was not having any symptoms. I don't ever get sick, just tired but I blame that on Kooper being not a great sleeper. That was the very last thing in the world that I expected to hear. Well things were a little scary for awhile because I had an IUD in and thought I might miscarry after it was removed. We have been trying to get use to the idea of having another one for the last 5 weeks. I cried ALOT! I think that I was just having such a hard time because in my mind I was DONE. I had worked hard to get back in shape. I let Kooper do things that my other ones never did (like crawl in bed with us) because I thought he was my last. I was just done. I could go on and on but to sum it all up, I took Kenzi with me to the Dr. a few days ago and that is when she found out. The Dr. gave her a picture of the 15 week old baby and she was beyond excited. She just wanted to know if it was a girl baby or a boy baby. Then later that evening she showed the boys the ultrasound pictures and it took them a minute but when they finally figured out what they were, they were screaming with excitement.
The kids couldn't wait to call the family and tell them. They wanted to share it with all their teachers and friends as well but I told them to hold off for a few days. It makes me smile to see how excited they are about this new addition to our already big family!
The Dr. was really nice when he saw how upset and shocked that I was. He said something that I will have to continue reminding myself. He said, "you are meant to have this baby, there is no other reason that this happened except that you are meant to be a mom and have this baby." Luke and I have gotten over the initial shock and know that everything happens for a reason and even if we don't understand why, this little special spirit is meant to be apart of our family. It is funny how kids are so much more in tune than we are. Looking back at some of the things that my kids have said it is like they have known all along that we are suppose to have one more baby.
I like that my kids can spread the news because as all my friends know I am not good at telling stuff like this. So I am sorry if this is how you are finding out.
I get to find out in a little less than 3 weeks if it is a girl or a boy so I will keep you posted.

Happy Birthday Daniel, Dax and Trex!