So, I am terrible about updating things on here, but we are now expecting our 4th child. I am currently 25 weeks along and we recently found out that we are having a boy! Everyone's reactions to the news was very interesting so I thought it would be something good to share.
So, Brett and I went to my doctor for my appointment and we were kind of anxious to find out if our next child would be a boy or a girl. Honestly, we would have been fine with either, but it's always nice to know. So when the doctor got to the genital area in the ultrasound we immediately both noticed it was a boy, but waited for confirmation from the doctor. The doctor very quickly confirmed that we are having a boy. I immediately turned to Brett and said "Natalie is going to cry."
Natalie has been saying since we told the girls that mommy was pregnant that she wanted another sister. She was very adamant that mommy was having another girl. So, needless to say on the drive to pick up our girls from our friends house Brett and I were talking about ways for us to help ease her in to the idea of getting a baby brother instead of a baby sister. We thought of letting her go to the store and pick out a special outfit for the baby and decided that was going to be our plan.
So, we walk in the house. Natalie and Lucy run up to us excited to see us and Natalie asked "So, where is my baby?" We asked her "What do you mean Natalie? The baby is still in mommy's belly." She started to cry and so Brett told her that she could be the one to tell everyone whether the baby was going to be a boy or a girl. She happily agreed. So we waited until Morgan finished her homework. Then we gathered the girls and our friends and their kids all in the living room and had Natalie come sit with me. I then showed her the ultrasound pictures and whispered in her ear that the pictures showed the baby's boy parts. She then turned to me and said "The baby has....." and she began to cry her little eyes out. So everyone was sitting there wondering what that meant. I then went on to say to Morgan, "Why do you think Natalie would be crying about the baby?" Morgan then replied "It's a BOY!!!" Morgan really wanted a baby brother.
Needless to say Natalie cried for like 30 minutes before we got her calmed down enough to put on her shoes and coat so that we could go to the store to let her pick out an outfit for the baby. However, once we get in the car ans we tell her where we are going, she starts crying again saying that she doesn't want to get the baby an outfit because she doesn't want to pick out a boy outfit. We get her calmed back down as we get to the store. So we go straight to the baby department and we start looking at little baby boy clothes. We keep showing her lots of different outfits to which she just keeps saying no to. Then finally, she points to a super cute sleeper with jungle animals on it and says "I want to get that one for the baby." So we put it in the cart. By the time we got home (she had carried it everywhere and wouldn't let anyone else really even touch it) she was much more on board with having a baby brother. She even let us film her talking about the outfit she picked out for her baby brother and used it to announce on social media that our 4th baby was going to be a boy.
Natalie is now slightly annoying in her excitement about getting a baby brother. I'm thinking that tomorrow we will be making a count down calendar or chain of some kind to help her keep track of the time between now and when the baby should get here.
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