Steve and Jenny Valentine

Sitting down to write this blog post has been a long time coming (well at least 20 weeks or so!) But we are excited to announce that we are expecting our fourth child! Below, you will see some pictures highlighting parts of this pregnancy so far and also I talk about the name we have chosen for our little guy. Enjoy! I'm starting with this picture, because this little guy (left) pictured here with our son Isaac, I like to say is the reason we are having another baby, haha! Isaac has been smitten with this little one since he first held him as a baby two years ago and he began praying we would have another baby, specifically a boy! It's such a neat part of this story to me and I'm so thankful for our son's heart ( and friends who have cute kiddos!) This was taken right after we told the kids I was pregnant. We bought them a book titled "New Baby" and it took a while for them to clue in, because we have several friends that are currently pregnant...

Karis and Isaac got to meet their baby sissy the evening she was born.  Since Olivia was born just after 4pm, my friend Cassi (who took care of them that day) brought them up to the hospital.  Funny story, when Cassi got the message that Olivia had arrived, she told Karis and Isaac and they told us that Karis ran around the room yelling something like, "MY BABY SISTER IS HERE!"  So cute! She was so excited to get up to the hospital. I don't have any real great pictures of that first sibling meeting and the one I do have of Karis, me and Olivia is a little blurry, but it works.  Isaac was very unsure of what was going on and stayed in daddy's arms, all while holding on to his baby doll.  He didn't want to get too close and I think was nervous as to why mommy was in a hospital gown and bed.  They didn't stay long since it was close to their bed time.  They went home for a good rest and came back the next morning to spend some time bonding with their new ...

We went to the doctor today for our 35 week appointment.  Karis was very active during the appointment and everything still seems to be healthy.  We have been very thankful and blessed by a great pregnancy so far!  We were able to get a little look at our daughter (as you see above) and can't believe how cute she is already!  The doctor said I'm already dilated to 1 cm and could possibly have the baby early depending on progression over the next couple weeks.  This seems a bit surreal, but we are very excited to meet her for whenever the Lord has it planned.  We did find out she is not head down, so our prayer is that she will flip to be head down and ready for a safe delivery.  It is not our desire for a c-section, but our goal is healthy baby, healthy mom, however that looks over the next few weeks.  I start going to appointments every week now, so I will have another appointment in a week and we'll see where things are at that time.  ...