It's a girl!

  What a week! The last few months have been driving me crazy with suspense. It's funny how sometimes you have an instinct with your children, and sometimes you just seem to draw a complete blank.

  I remember being pregnant with Taevin and not having any intuition as to whether he was a boy or girl, and it didn't matter, I was just excited to be having a baby. Russ however had a feeling about him, and he was right, a sweet little boy!

  My pregnancy with Ryler was practically identical, and from the beginning, I had a strong feeling that he was a boy, Russ disagreed with me but somehow I just knew... another sweet little boy!
  This time has been somewhat different, rather that craving bacon and sushi, it was salad and donuts accompanied with more exhaustion and less morning sickness, still, I had little intuition about the sex, although in the back of my mind I thought maybe there was a chance for a girl, I wasn't about to let myself believe that and just assumed boy, given our track record. Russ however, knew something I didn't, although I would've been happy either way.
  We went in for our monthly appointment with our midwife about a week ago, and just for fun we did an ultrasound to see if we could find out something, but it revealed nothing but a big fat cord, stubborn baby! A few days later, we went in to the doctors office for our official 18 week ultrasound, everything was looking good, perfect little head, all limbs in tact, and a strong heartbeat. It took a while to get the shot we were looking for, but we found it, and much to my surprise, what we found was not what I was expecting, rather, three little lines, which is what indicates a girl. I was shocked, so shocked in fact that I made the tech check three times just to be sure. Russ was beaming and giving me the I told you so look. One of my first thoughts, although silly, was "what am I going to do? I don't even know where to buy hair bows". Luckily, I've been given a few pointers. We promptly called our family and friends, and I went and bought some pink jammies. What a day!
  Reality is finally setting in and we have already started working on the nursery and making preparations for this huge change in our lives. We feel so blessed to have been given the two most wonderful little boys, and now to add a beautiful daughter to our family, I'm not sure what we've done to deserve such blessings. The one thing that I am sure of, is that we're grateful.