A week ago today I gave birth to my third child. For the first time ever I journaled just before being induced. Here is my journal entry:

This is the first time I’ve ever journaled or written anything down just before giving birth. With my oldest, I was young and scared only 23 and had no clue what awaited me. It proved to be 2 long days in a hospital bed before giving birth to my firstborn, a rambunctious little one.

With my baby girl, I was so excited and anxious to see her I had planned out everything in detail for her, clothes, nursery theme, none of which I thought much about with my son.

With Brady, whose mere existence caught me by surprise I feel so different. Anxious yet in a new way, I’m more prepared more aware and therefore more reflective and introspective. This is after all in my plans the last time I’ll ever experience this. I do not plan to birth anymore children. After all this one took me by surprise. I believe that God has something planned, bigger than my plans for this child, because it was HIS plan. And, his plan are always greater than ours.

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Brady Cade born Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 9:24 am.  He weighed 8 lbs. 6 oz.  is 20.5 inches long.  Mom and baby are doing well.  Enjoy these shots.

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My husband loves being a daddy. He wanted to be a daddy from the day we got married I think, probably before that. I put him off for a while, so he finally said he just HAD to be a daddy before he was 30. I was pregnant with my son on his 30th birthday so he wasn’t far from meeting that goal. Now he is daddy to 3, technically, as baby #3 will be born in a month or so. Here’s some pics of daddy and babies, and more of the babies that he helped to make so cute!

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