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GIRL!!!! We're all very excited to be adding another little girl to our family! I'm excited Ansley will have a sister to grow up with and Ethan is glad we will have an even number of both genders....he was very concerned about that.

We took the whole family to see the ultrasound and I think we gave the technician quite the show. Ansley was quietly eating her Cheerios and dropping a few as she went...which we promised to pick up once we were done. And after we explained to the boys that we would basically be seeing the baby's skeleton, Ethan kept tyring to name all the bones he just learned..."is that the clavicle?", "is that the femur?". Jude kept saying he saw a mustache, even after we found out it was a girl and finally realized he kept seeing the pelvic bone which from a certain angle did look like a handlebar mustache. But Jude's favorite part was watching the heart beat and asked to see it over and over again. Then at one point I said "Jude there's the heart", to which he replied "I see it!! I see Jesus in her heart too!" I love his literal mind but had to explain that Jesus isn't literally sitting in our hearts...he still seems confused on that one. Then as we were leaving, the doctor asked the boys what they thought Santa was going to bring them for Christmas, to which Jude blurted out "Santa's just fake. He's just a man that dresses up in the malls." I think the doctor was a bit surprised but I'm glad he knows that Christmas isn't all about Santa...we just had to remind him not to tell his friends because some of them believe that Santa is real.

So now the planning and name picking can begin. We're thrilled and so thankful for a healthy, growing baby girl. Because we've lost two babies to miscarriages in the past, we don't take for granted the miracle of babies and we give God all the glory and praise for giving us this wonderful gift!