The story behind baby Fletcher kinda gets me a little emotional which well now a days isn't hard to do. ( preggo hormones are no joke!) So KC and I have been married for almost 14 years now and we both have always talked about having 2 kids. So after we had Lachlyn we both were kinda feeling like ok, we have a boy and a girl and were pretty much done with babies. KC felt complete but I was always on the fence... I didn't want to agree to never but I was happy with where we were at.
About a year or two later I started getting pretty bad baby fever. I also started to feel bad that Lachlyn wouldn't have a sister. KC was still pretty set on just two kids. I admired his thinking in a way. He really wanted to give each kid everything we could. He wanted to provide the best we could and be able to go and do more. So I continued to push my desire of a 3rd deep inside. Well another year passes and that feeling didn't just grow a little, it was like I felt full force that I wanted another little one and I started regretting. KC and I had many many talks over months and months and I had asked him to do some serious praying about what God had in store for us. I prayed everyday for God to take that feeling away because I knew how badly KC felt.
So Lachlyn turned 3, and Rhone was 5 and the age gap started to grow. So months passed and KC and I had another talk... he said that he had been praying and that he felt like God was calling us to adopt. I cried many tears of joy and knew that I felt like adoption was also what God wanted. Because of my auto immune issues, asthma, and eczema I really was so frightened to push my luck with healthy kids. I have always been so incredible fearful of passing down my issues to one of children. So right away, I went to our church and started on the path to researching what organization we would want to go through. We had meetings with our church and with the organization. I filed all the paper work and yet in the back of our minds we knew we couldn't afford it. (don't get me started on the how I feel about the costs of adoption: that's a whole other post)
We prayed and prayed and had hope that God would provide. We also new that in our current rental house there was no more room for another little one so we started looking into buying a house. The housing costs here are pretty expensive and we weren't quite sure how our little savings that we did have could cover the down payment on a house and adoption. So we decided to make steps in a responsible way and bought our house first so that we could provide for our family. We also decided to take out the IUD I had for birth control and to pray and leave this whole decision up to God. So we put in offers and offers until finally I think it was the offer #6 we finally got ours accepted. And well God worked pretty fast and that same week we found out our offer on our house was accepted we also found out that we also were PREGNANT! It was quite a emotional time, it was a lot of change and a lot to take in.
On a side note // It is pretty amazing how when I get to a place that I can't handle and I give it up to God, he delivers in such amazing ways. I feel so blessed to have my relation ship with God and to be able to go to him and in our marriage and trust him that he knows better what is right for our family then we know ourselves.
This house, with out a doubt was a gift from God and so was this precious baby! We are so excited and can't wait to have her in our arms. I was a little worried about the age gap between the kids but I also have come to realize that it is going to be so different than when I had a baby and a toddler! Rhone and Lachlyn completely understand what is going to happen and are preparing already with playing mother and learning how to take care of babies. This baby girl will get so much attention and love that I am not sure my heart can handle it!
KC has been working so incredibly hard not only at work where he is killing it, but also on our fixer upper house. There were projects that we have been doing over here in full force to get them done before she comes. I am so thankful that I have been healthy enough to continue to work so that we can pay for the house work and prepare for our little family of 5!
I am now 35 weeks along and counting the days until we get to see her face! Thanking God each day giving us these 3 little blessings and can't wait to post about her arrival!
