When DH and I started dating, he told me he didn't want anymore kids since he already had two. He eventually (obviously) came around and has been telling everyone we'll be adding two of our own to the bunch. Some people give us goofy looks as we'll have 4 total kids, not that I care. I'm excited! This will mean that the SK will have to share rooms with the biokids, but they'll be fine with that. We will eventually have to buy a bigger car. Actually, by the time this LO arrives, we'll have to come up with some creative arrangement for our car... We have a Civic and currently two kids in booster seats. The two boosters fit fine, but with an infant car seat...umm, no. They don't fit. In IN, a child does not need to be in a booster seat after age 8. SD will turn 8 when LO is 5 months old. Hopefully they'll all be able to fit after that. Until then, I guess we'll be taking two cars anywhere we go (ugh). *I'm open to suggestions. :-)
How many do you (and/or DH) have currently, and do you want to have any more children? If you are the BM in this equation, did you ever think you would have any more? How will your answer affect things like sleeping, cars, etc?
Just my curiosity to pass the afternoon...?
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We both have one from a previousrelationship and we would love to have 2 together one day. I'm not sure if that will happen but definitely one more.
We both have 2 from previous relationships (2 boys, 2 girls all under 10!). We really wish we could have one of our own (he's a pretty amazing father) but he had a vasectomy after his daughter was born. As much as we'd both like to have another baby, we definitely have our hands full with 4 kids! We also had to get a bigger vehicle and bigger home to accommodate our family when we doubled in size! But I wouldn't have it any other way!!
DH had twins when we married and also said he wasn't sure he wanted anymore. Well I got pg with twins a couple of weeks before our wedding so that went out the window as well. Everyone used to make comments like, "so you're done now right?" I just looked at them like they were crazy. I tell them just because I married a man with kids doesn't change the desire I've had as a little girl to have 3 or 4 kids. So I'm pg with #3 (it will be 5 total) and we're actually thinking of having MAYBE one more. People think we're crazy but I don't care. I just say, well this is only MY third baby and we only have the other two kids half the time. They have a mother. And they leave me alone. LOL
As far as the car, we always had a yukon denali from the start so we're just filling up the seats with kids. LOL We're about to have bedroom issues cause the older twins are b/g and will need to be separated soon. But new baby will be taking the spare bedroom. We're looking for a bigger house now with 5 bedrooms!
DH has a son from previously, and we would like to have 2 together. (1 of those coming in Feb!) But twins run in both of our families, so I am secretly hoping for twins next time because I want more than he does
4 total for us. I have one DD, DH has two boys, and we have a little boy on the way.
Fi has 1 son and I do not have bio's. We are planning to start trying the night of our wedding according to my Fi and his mom!!! He wants kids and has no limit on how many we have. I on the other hand would like to do more traveling, dinner dates and 'us' time. Hopefully i'll catch this baby fever I hear about soon as I just turned 31
In regards to our cars, I drive an Audi A4 and he drives an Audi A6 so space is not a factor. Also we are currently building a 5 bed house, no probs there either.
Only you can determine if you have twins not your DH. They run on the maternal side. Everyone thinks my DH is the reason he has twins with ex AND twins with me. I quickly let them know it runs on my side (we have 5 sets) & his ex had IVF.
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I have a 9 year old DD from and I told him up front I have always wanted another one. (Really, I always wanted 3). Eventually we agreed to have 1 more.
So we have 4 between us currently with 1 on the way so that will bring us to 5. We have stepkids EOW & EO Holiday and we fixed his weekends so they correspond with the weekends my DD does not go to her dads so they can all be together. So EOW we have no kids, until the baby comes...which is another reason we wanted another one. It's hard to go from 4 kids one weekend to NO kids the next.
We both were the youngest of 4 kids. My mom was 1 of 7 and DH's Aunt is adoptive mom to 6 kids. So we NEVER get any flack from family about the # of kids we have. However, I'm sure we get looks when we are out in public, I tend to ignore them, but I'm sure it will get worse when I actually begin to show with this one. We do get asked if any of them are twins A LOT lol. Usually, that's when I explain that 1 is mine and 3 are his and then everyone seems content with that answer.
Unless we get a larger vehicle (which I am planning for) we would have to drive separate cars after LO gets here.