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Pregnant With Thanksgiving

November 24th, 2007

I couldn’t think of a cute name for this post. :) I usually don’t have that problem. Okay, so in plain English: we are expecting another baby! We are so thankful and happy to share the news. Eric asked if he could post it on his blog instead of mine to see if anyone noticed, and we both laughed. We almost announced the whole thing on the blog, but since we found out a few days before visiting family for Thanksgiving this week, it was only appropriate to share it then.

I’m pregnant with thanksgiving! Exactly four years ago we were going through the last few hard hours of labor to bring our Lydia into the world, and now, four years later we have three sweet blessings resting across the hall and one in my womb. Thank You, Father!

So Lydia, Steven, and Meredith will God-willing have a baby brother or sister next Summer. I cannot tell you how thrilled Eric and I are. We just keep laughing and smiling every time there is a quiet moment between us.

If we have another boy, his name will be Shepherd Ford. If we have a girl, we will likely have a long discussion after the delivery to come up with something the five of us equally like. For now Lydia keeps insisting we name her Dori, but that’s just because she watched “Finding Nemo” last week. Then the conversation quickly digresses into Lydia and Steven speaking waaaaaaaale ….. haha!

Posted in Celebrate!

  • Andrea wrote,

    Kristi..
    Congratulations!!!
    I am so happy for you guys.

  • Alesha Brittain Goodlett wrote,

    Congrats Kristi! What a blessing! I am so excited for you!

  • emily wrote,

    well you know i am bursting with excitement!!!!! it’s going to be a little weird to not see your growing belly in person this time around, so we have to get on ichat on a regular basis for belly shots! haha. praise the Lord for your growing family. keep having babies as long as your children don’t take over the bonus room, because then i’ll have nowhere to stay when i visit. :)

    have fun telling everyone at church tomorrow!!

  • Leah M wrote,

    Ha Ha! I knew it would happen when you said you didn’t want to be pregnant at the reunion. I’m so excited for you though. Good luck! Now Katie just needs to catch up with you.

  • Amy Middleton wrote,

    Congrats!!! You guys certainly are fulfilling the scripture: be fruitful and multiply!!! :) YAY for babies!

  • Kristi wrote,

    Haha, Em! Yeah, we can at least fit six more kids in the bonus room with room to spare, right?

    Why does no one laugh when I make jokes like that anymore? :)

    Leah, I’m so glad I won’t be pregnant at our reunion. We wanted God to let us have another child, but we didn’t want it to be 3 or 4 years from Meredith - that’s too far than we like … and I really didn’t want to be anywhere past 6 or 7 months pregnant at the reunion so that I could really focus and enjoy it… so we are so happy and thankful! All in all it is really God who opens and closes the womb, and we are really just thrilled to have another baby. I’ll see you soon with a little larger tummy!

  • Natalie wrote,

    Congratulations Kristi! Four children… what a blessing. We would love to have four but it feels so crazy that someone our age is so far ahead of us! We will be praying for you during your pregnancy.

    ps - I laughed out loud when you mentioned Steven and Lydia speaking whale because my nephew had an incident lately where he tried to speak “ostrich” to somebody (he figured if Dori could speak whale, he could speak like an animal, too)..

    pps - my dad’s name is Sheppard. Spelled differently, but obviously I like the name. :)

  • Nancygrayce wrote,

    I can’t think of better parents! Congratulations to you all! And anyhow I like Dori! That’s what my sister’s have been calling me lately! :) Nancy Jinks

  • Ashlee wrote,

    Congratulations! I am so excited for you! I can’t wait to follow along through your blog!
    What an awesome Thanksgiving!
    Again, congrats!
    Love,
    Ashlee

  • Ann wrote,

    Again I say - Congrats!!! You make a wonderful parenting team: YOU and ERIC! I’m very happy for you ALL!!!! It is very strange to think that someone my age whom I’ve known for … (how many years now? a lot…) and I sometimes feel like I have a handful with ONE, much less FOUR! Bless you!

  • Ashlee wrote,

    I know what you mean, Ann! Kristi, you (and your husband) do an awesome job!

  • Kelly wrote,

    Congrats! :-)

  • linda wrote,

    Hey! Congratulations! I came to see if you’d posted the table runner. :o) How do you have any energy to sew? And I must ask, how do you and hubby have a quiet moment? With our three boys, there’s almost NEVER a quiet moment. :o) God bless you and your little one!

  • Kristi wrote,

    Linda - I’ll post it asap :)

    Well… kids actually got a huge lecture tonight after dinner when we had to get up from our “husband - wife 5 minute conversation” at the table to break up an argument! Sigh…

    You guys are all so sweet, and we do appreciate every bit of encouragement! Thank you!

  • MW wrote,

    Congrats! That is so exciting!

    That is hilarious about the “Dori” suggestion since the movie is so “fresh on the brain”. LOL. :-)

  • katherine@raisingfive wrote,

    Congratulations! I’m so glad I came over here just in time to hear your good news. I’ve been here before, but you’ve updated the look, I think.

    I’ve been thinking about your question on my blog, and I’ll probably need to ponder it some more before answering. I’ll either email you (if you’ll email me so I can reply) or I’ll write a post.

    Congratulations again - God is good, isn’t He?

    Love,
    Katherine

  • Grafted Branch@Restoring the Years wrote,

    That’s such joyful news! I’m so excited for you–and I have no idea who you are! ;)

    Just surfing around on a rabbit trail…

  • ten little toes: November 2007 wrote,

    [...] here to find out why kristi is smiling so big these days!if you know her, your guess is probably right. [...]

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