Cassandra, We Have Something to Tell You.

A conversation we had with Cassandra last week.



Cass: What do you want to tell me something of?

Stephen: There's a little baby growing inside Mummy's belly!

Cass: (hesitant) Yeah?

Stephen: So you're going to have a little brother or sister.

(Cassandra giggles for awhile, bouncing.)

Stephen: Is that good?

Cass: (emphatically) Yes! (Hesitant again) Well...she doesn't yet.

Stephen: Yeah Mummy does now! Right now it's in there. It's very little.

Cass: (patting belly) And mine too?

Stephen: No, not yours too, just Mummy's. But you'll get to share the baby.

Cass: And Eli?

Stephen: And Eli.

Lauren: Eli will be a big brother as well as a little brother. And you will be a big sister to two.

Cass: Mum, please can you show me?

Lauren: You can't see the baby, but maybe in a few weeks you'll be able to feel the baby move.

Cass: And I want to hold it.

Lauren: It will be a long time till we get to hold the baby. It takes a long time for the baby to grow in Mummy's belly.

(Cassandra spends a little while checking out my belly and is unimpressed.)

Cass: Mum, did you know that there are two babies in your belly?

Lauren: Well it's on record that you've predicted that. I don't think so though. Why do you think there are two?

Cass: So there is going to be one for me?

Lauren: Ohh, one for you and one for me, is that it?

Cass: Yeah.

Lauren: I think we can just share.

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Baby number 3 is a great blessing for us. We expect bub's arrival sometime in March/April 2012. With God's blessing, we expect to have another home birth. I am feeling very healthy and well and am very excited!