It's A Girl! ...AGAIN! :)

Most of you have probably already heard via facebook...but for those that have not...my ultrasound at my last doctor's appointment showed that we, in fact, WERE incorrect last time in thinking I was carrying a boy. He is actually a SHE, again. Our doctor was quite sure based on the ultrasound tech's pictures that it is a girl. Before he came into the room to see me, he'd already viewed my ultrasound pics with the tech. He came in smiling and shaking his hung head and said "Man! I really thought you were getting a boy this time but I guess I was just hoping too much for you and trying to see something that wasn't actually there. I'm sorry!" I laughed and told him it was no big deal, we were totally fine with another girl. (Me probably more so than Nathan-but he'd never show it.) I explained to him that it had only been like a year and a half ago that we were buying a new PINK car seat and everything else pink, preparing for Addison, so all of her baby things that we still have are practically new. I told him it was good because we are already prepared for this baby...not much to do or buy to get things ready for her arrival. Which really is a blessing considering how busy I stay with the other three girls. Now I don't have to worry about going out shopping for all new blue baby things. Which, I probably WILL go out shopping some, but it'll be for the fun stuff...outfits and such!

Schools here had been canceled due to the cold temperatures on the day of my ultrasound so I had to take all three girls with me to the appointment. Nathan met us there to watch the girls for me. I expected that they could all come into the ultrasound room with me but once they called me back, they told me no children under age 8 were allowed in. :( A bummer because that also meant that Nathan couldn't come in either. So after it was over, I gathered my new pictures of her and went out to break the news to Nathan. Bless his heart, Addison, and probably Emma too, was giving him fits in the waiting room so he had to take all three of them out into the hallway and walk them around. He was just about at his wits end when I found him to tell him he was getting yet another daughter. I fully expected him to be really let down and disappointed. I mean, who wouldn't be, if they were in his shoes.
So I say, "Well, we were wrong last time, it's another girl...I'm SO SORRY!" All he said was "No way, are you serious? Well, that's okay, another girl will be good. At least we're already prepared for her. Oh my gosh, FOUR GIRLS! WOW! HA HA!"
He was so good about it all...as he has been every time with everything...finding out about our third and this fourth pregnancy...as I was falling apart and worried, he was confident and happy and comforting to me. He is so good! And such a great daddy to his girls. I guess that's why God saw fit to bless us with another girl.

So anyway, that's it. Another girl is on her way to our home. And boy is she coming fast! I have a hard time keeping up with how many weeks along I am. Thankfully, "there's an app for that!" I checked my "what to expect..." app on my phone this morning and I am 21 weeks and two days. Only 18 weeks, five days left to go. I guess being busy with everything else, I've not had time to dwell on the days passing by and every time I check that app on my phone I'm astonished at the "weeks remaining" number. It's dwindling down so quickly. Not that I'm not ready to meet her and have her here to hold, but I know from experience, she is so much easier to care for right where she is! :)

One more thing that Nathan did say that day before we left the doctor's office: "We're going to have to rethink that name Eden Elise. I really don't like it. At all!" Shoot! I thought it was really pretty. So we may be back to the drawing board for names. Unless I can keep saying it to him often and it grows on him enough for him to say, okay. :) But name suggestions are always welcome! So if you have any baby girl names you can share, bring 'em on!