Surprise!

The other night, Barry and I were watching a YouTuber make fun of the Disney show, "Good Luck, Charlie". If you're not familiar with the show, the Duncan family has three older children and end up having a surprise baby named Charlie. The YouTuber was really laying on the jokes about how in today's day and age it shouldn't be possible to "accidentally" get pregnant. And Barry and I found ourselves yelling at the guy. Because it is very possible, Alex Meyers! 

I have two older brothers and then there is a twelve year gap between myself and my younger brother. When my parents sat us down to tell us their news, we all thought my mom was dying. Because that was a heck of a lot more likely than her having another baby!

And when we sat our own kids down to tell them our news, they all asked if I was dying. Which was a little depressing. As a kid, we thought my mom was dying because she was WAY TOO old to have a baby. So what does that say about me, that my kids also assumed I was sick?? (And then I find out I'm considered a "geriatric" pregancy, ouch.) 

When we first started announcing that we were expecting, we had so many people throw out the, "don't you guys know how babies are made?" joke. And to be honest, it made me cry. Every time. I had had an IUD put in in November by a terrible doctor that I didn't like at all. And in June... BIGGEST SURPRISE of our life. 

But the bigger surprise is just how much this little girl is a light in our lives. Before she came I had several personal spiritual experiences that really helped me know she was meant to come to our family, even if it took DIVINE intervention to get her here. Our family is HUGE in today's standards. We always love to drop our family size in casual conversation and then watch the reaction we know will inevitably come. "You have FIVE kids?!"

 We really appreciate when people occasionally add, "you don't look old enough to have five kids!" 

And the weirdest one so far, "You have FIVE kids?! You must be rich!" 

No, lady at the park. We are definitely not rich. 

But we are content, and that's saying a lot. We're Just seven Ricks in the mix.