So much for our Pattern!

Bruce, me and Lily went to the ultrasound today....

The ultrasound was so precious. It is amazing how it doesn't matter that I have been through this before. I cried. I could feel the baby moving the whole time and it is still just amazingly wild to me, that while I could feel her moving inside of me, I could see her moving on the screen. She kicked herself in the head a couple times while we were watching... seriously, she is going to fit in with the rest of our crazy kids!

I had felt like it was a girl all along, but right before the ultrasound I was like, what if it's not? The tech looked around at other stuff for a while, then when she showed the girl parts and said, its all girl, I of course cried, YEAH!

Some mother said to me once, who was older with 5 or 6 six kids, that she is always so happy to hear when mothers find out it's a girl. She said because girls grow up to be your friends. Boys are precious too, but they grow up and get married, and you stay close, but somehow it's the girls that really become your friends. Her comment was one of the first things I thought of when the ultrasound tech said GIRL. I thought, lucky me, FOUR daughters, four friends. I thought, through out my life, and as they grow older, they are mine, my four daughters. I feel so blessed to have 4 girls, I can't believe it. And somehow it makes my boys even more special to me, because there's just the 2, and I need to treasure those moments more!

Sooooo, the kids were SO excited when they left for school knowing that when they got back from school, they would know if they were having a brother or a sister. I decided to make it fun and went and got pink crepe paper, pink balloons, and made sugar cookies with pink frosting and put little tiny plastic babies on them, and pink hershey kisses on the table. So the kids came home to a PINK house and...

We had a PINK celebration!

girl-boy-girl-boy-girl-GIRL!

PS) Lily went with us to the ultrasound and she was such an angel, sitting on Bruce's lap watching. And Bruce says to her, Lily, look, there's our baby, pointing to the screen... and Lily says, "I can't see it." Poor Lily had no idea how we could see a baby as she looked at images like the above picture... ha ha!

All girl, All healthy, All good.