Round 2

There is something about the 1 year mark that makes everyone feel like they have the right to be nosey into your private baby-making life. When Matt and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary, everyone starting asking if we were going to have a baby soon.  We didn't. We waiting 4 years for that. Once Eva celebrated her first birthday, everyone started asking when we would have number 2. 

Originally, when Matt and I first started talking about babies (before we were married) we wanted to have 3 children. We wanted to have our first when we were young (like 26) and then wait four years before we had the second and then have the third soon after that. We had many reasons for why this was our plan then, but once we had Eva in our arms and our hearts plans changed. 

Eva was about a month old when I looked at Matt and said, "I want 6 more just like her!". 

After Eva turned one we talked about it more seriously and decided that we still wanted three children, but now we wanted an option for four. We didn't want to wait until Eva was four before she had siblings to share the roost with, but we weren't QUITE ready yet either. We had some preparations to make first.

1. We needed to move. While we technically could have had two children in our townhome, we did not WANT to have two children in our townhome. We simply couldn't imagine how we could even see each other over all the toddler gear AND baby gear at the same time. By this point we had been on the market for 9 months and were getting nowhere except into a lower price bracket with each price decrease. We were very discouraged. We had had probably a dozen showings in ALL nine months on the market. It was incredibly difficult to keep a house show-ready for 9 months while raising an infant turning into a toddler inside it. The last two showings we had scheduled were no shows. I was about to crack under the pressure so we pulled the house from the market and planned to regroup in 2011.  

2. I needed to fix my back. I was still having some serious pelvic-back issues. So I went to the doctor, got x-rays and completed almost 2 months of physical therapy.  Check!

3. I needed to ween myself off of caffeine and sugar. I knew I would be walking right back into Gestational Diabetes again once I got pregnant. I was NOT looking forward to this at all. Having GD a second time meant I would be handled by the Diabetes Center and not Maternal/Fetal Medicine. It also meant I would have an even higher chance of keeping Diabetes post-pregnancy. Boo.

4. We needed to take a vacation!  Before Eva was born, Matt and I took a "Babymoon" to Disney World. We had a wonderful time and wanted to take Eva even though she was still so young. I wanted to go there while I wasn't pregnant so I could eat and ride whatever I wanted! My best friend lives in Orlando and her 30th birthday was a fabulous excuse to take the trip. Check!

So all that really left us with was selling the house. We met up with our realtor again and resigned all the paperwork and were ready to brave it all again. We weren't willing to sit on the market for another 9 months so we came on the market well under market value (our apologies to the neighbors!) and with our game faces on. 

After a long discussion, we decided we didn't want to put our family on hold anymore and we decided we'd start trying and give the house-selling-situation up to the powers that be. We hoped we would sell before we got pregnant because it would probably take months before I got pregnant....or so we thought...