our daughter

meet our daughter...

isn't she the cutest?!

here are her little legs, feet crossed at the ankles. such a lady already!

here she is giving us a 'thumbs up'

and here is the gender shot. since i know what to look for, i saw the 3 white lines before the tech even said anything!

 seeing your baby on the screen just never gets old. in fact, i think this ultrasound was my favorite {am i allowed to say that?}. everything was so clear, and she was doing all sorts of darling things. plus, the lady doing the ultrasound was the kindest person, and spent lots of time gushing along with us.

a LONG time ago, brian and i talked about how fun it would be to have 3 girls {of course, realizing that we would have zero control over it}. that's not to say that we wouldn't be excited about having a son, because OBVIOUSLY we would. we just sort of pictured 3 girls.  almost everyone we know was hoping for a boy. we've heard all sorts of reasons why we, or more specifically brian, needs to have a boy. we would just smile and say "we'll see. there's a 50/50 chance". 

when we found out our baby was a girl, we were really excited. really, truly excited. that probably doesn't make sense to a lot of people. but we were. are. i don't know what God's plans are for our future. maybe He's laughing right now, because he knows he'll be sending us a son. Or maybe this is it. three girls. either way, we are so excited for our family. so excited that our girls will have each other. 3 sisters close in age, how fun will that be! And my husband, the most manly man i know, surrounded by ladies. He loves his little darlings so very much. And don't worry that he's missing out on anything by having girls...

Finley knows her way around a tool box better than most boys!

oh, and one final somewhat frightening thought: our girls will all be in high school at the same time. a freshman, sophomore, and senior. wowza!