Three to Five...

So...big things happening for the Blackwell family. 

At the beginning of today we were a family of three...David, Eri and I.

As of now we are a family of four...

and soon we'll be a family of five...

Crazy!

This afternoon we were so excited to welcome a new little guy into our home.  

He's one week old and he's beautiful!

He's Eri's brother.

He reminds us so much of Eri when we first brought her home.

He's tiny. He sleeps ALOT. He wants to stay curled up in a little ball all the time.

We are so excited that we get the opportunity to be his family...for however long that is.

It's scary to start over with this process...

the process of not knowing what tomorrow will bring with him, court dates, visits and all of that.

But we both agree that the goods outweigh the scaries!

Just as before, we'll pray a lot and take it a day at a time.

While he's here...we'll love him!

Eri loves him.  

She wasn't too sure when she first saw him, but after about five minutes she was in love with him.

Just as I figured, she wants to help take care of him and be around him all the time. 

Now to the second part of this story...

I've been waiting to post this for a few different reasons.

But, I wait no more.

In August, David and I will welcome another little boy into this world...

Briggs Allon Blackwell.

As of this coming Saturday, I will be 24 weeks pregnant.

We are so excited about this! 

I have experienced a lot of not so fun, and some really fun times being pregnant.

For about the first five months I did not feel well!

It as yucky.  

The only thing that made it worth it was knowing why I felt that way.

Now, I feel better but I have heartburn every afternoon and night. 

I've never had that before, but I now know it's not fun.

But...

I'm so enjoying this time.

For a couple weeks now I've been able to feel him move! 

That is such a wonderful and interesting feeling.

I've loved reading about how he's developing weekly, and seeing him on ultrasounds!

It really is such an amazing miracle!

The way God designed it all, the way it all works...it's amazing!

I'm sure I'll be posting more about this experience in the weeks and months to come, 

and I'll probably post some pictures soon.

So, as we move into summer...the craziest time of year for us (with our jobs),

we have a 2 year old, a newborn, and I will be very pregnant!

Maybe we're crazy.

But we're excited. 

We are going to enjoy it.

We are ready to take on this challenge and see what each day looks like.  

We'll pray a lot.

We'll take it a day at a time.

We'll treasure moments and days.

And probably one day we'll look back and say...WOW!