It's A Girl!

I will never forget the day we found out our 4th child was to be a girl. With all three of my previous pregnancies, I felt in my heart it would a girl. By the time the 4th came around, there was no doubt, it was a boy. His name was going to be Seth.

The day of the ultrasound, the technician surprised us with the words, "It's a girl." and continued on with the examination. Aaron and I sat in stunned silence. A tear trickled down my cheek. After a few minutes, in a hushed voice Aaron said, "We have 3 boys at home." The technician immediately returned to the area of her body to confirm that it was our little girl.

She was born three weeks early arriving on December 18th (another big surprise, the boys were all late) with lots of dark hair (another surprise, the boys all had blonde fuzz, in fact, my one of my first thoughts was, "They've switched my baby!"). Her middle name is Belen, the Spanish word for Bethlehem. She will always be our Christmas miracle.

Everything we bought for her was pink. Her room was painted pink. It was so fun finally buying dresses. We make no excuses for spoiling her. After three boys, we were celebrating the change of pace, however, I think she was perplexed at the thought of being the only girl in a house of boys.

Now, she loves her big brothers and wants to play with them all the time.

Two days after moving in to our new house, we celebrated her 4th birthday. Four is a really fun age. The anticipation of her birthday was almost more than she could handle. She loved opening her presents

and blowing out the candles on her cake (that cake is so lopsided it looks like it's right out of a Dr. Seuss book.) She has a way of wrapping her dad around her little finger so tight he is willing to play "pets" with her and Vanessa.
As we celebrated her birthday a few weeks ago, I was reminded what a blessing it is to be mom.