Knocked up...again.

So i guess an absentee blog could be a side effect of being PREGNANT again. whew!! :) we found out while we were at the beach the beginning of august. Carter baby #3 should be arriving in April! we are beyond excited!!!! we had told the kids the night before we told the fam that we were trying to"grow" a baby and we would see if it would grow! the next night when my brother got in town at dinner i had liza show the fam this pic! :)
we had an ultrsound (which i think i lost the pics to ;) ) and everything looked so far so good.
liza and mccoy are both VERY excited.
liza wants a boy and mccoy a girl which is the OPPOSITE of what i would have guessed. i'm not sure if mccoy totally gets the whole thing. i think he might only be saying girl because he gets mad when liza says she wants a brother and yells, liza! you have a brother!!!!!! and then she says  well i want a new brother!!! so you can see how that is going! ;)
liza has had very big opinions about names. she originally said she would like rio for a boy and jewel for a girl. now she says she would like jack or evie. when we told her the names WE were thinking she was appalled and hated them. haha. mccoy said for his new sister he would like to name her katherine kate carter.
we are still working on the REAL names but getting close ;)
mccoy reminds me everyday that my tummy is big or he says whoa! your tummy is getting bigger!!!! you have a belly buster!!! lol.
and of course, i am sick. really really sick. it is just what i do! ;) i knew there was no way around it after the first two! i am incredibly grateful for this gift. i know there are people praying every day and night for the chance to feel sick and pregnant. so i have tried to keep any chance of a pity party for myself far far away. :) this one has knocked me down on my behind a few times to say the least! ;) lots of throwing up and lots of feeling like i should throw up! ;)  i was also waking up in the middle of the night throwing up which i didn't remember doing with the other two. i have stopped taking the prenatal vitamins and that has seemed to help with that part. i am still gaining weight like a champ though! ;) ha! every time i will throw something up i decide i can't eat that thing anymore...but with all the food options out there it has not limited my eating habits! i pretty much have to eat constantly to keep from getting sick. i am on zofran and phenygren every single day and some days i will throw those right up! i hope i am getting to the end of that trip though! :) lets be honest...if they told me i was going to need to cut my arm off for my child i would do it so i think being sick for a 3-4 months is something i can put up with! ;)
i can tell my kids miss me being fun :( liza has even said that because i am sick all the time i am not fun anymore...all i do is throw up. she is also terrified of me when i get sick. haha. i have felt so behind at work. i don't think i realized how much work i was doing at night but by the time i get the kids to bed there is no way i can open my computer. jason has been a superhero. these past couple months i have been very sick, left him while i had a work trip, then left him while i went to check on my mom a few times, he helped me while i chaired an event at liza's school, and told me i wasn't going to throw up while i was leading a workshop in front of 80 people ;). he has done all of it beautifully. i can not be more grateful and proud of him! :) he has been so empathetic and brought me cold wash clothes countless times. i feel lucky. ;)
hopefully we will find out what we are having in a few more weeks! :) yay!!!!!