At Home in the Mountains

Note: Google won't let me upload pictures right now for some reason. I am writing this down here so I can remember Kelsay's birth story. You are welcome to read or not. I promise there are not too many of the gory details, just a few key points about what happened that I want to remember. Kelsay Tabitha Fletcher joined our family on the cold morning of February 5th, 2014. She was born at Baylor Carrollton Hospital and weighed 8 lbs 3 oz and was 20 inches long. It was a crazy day. I was schedule to go in for an induction at 7a.m. that morning. At about 3:30 that morning Maddy woke up because she had pottied the bed. (A very unusual occurrence these days.) Both Aaron and I got up to change her clothes, strip sheets, etc. Right as I got up I felt a strong contraction, but being 3 a.m. I was thinking that my muscles were hurting from laying in bed in one position too long so I didn't really think much about it. Aaron went to put Maddy back to bed and fell asleep in her room.

Of being pregnant and being a family of three. As Maddy said this morning, "Today is the last day that baby Kelsay isn't here!" Though we are all excited and looking forward to Baby Kelsay's birth, I think all of us sense what a big change is coming. Change always brings gains and losses with it. No matter how happy the change and how much good it brings, you also lose something, sometimes good things. That is just life and how it works. Being just the three of us has been so great. (OF course there were a lot of good things about being just the two of us too!) There are always people out there questioning judgement, giving those hints about having another one, and about how Maddy really needs a sibling, blah, blah, blah. But in the end, you have to make a judgement about what is best for your family and do the best you can. I am so glad we have had almost 5 years with just Maddy. It has been such a blessing to be able to focus our energies solely on her and to be abl