The waiting is over!

This Monday we found out what we are having!

I have to tell you that it has been somewhat of a controversy in our house. Makayla and Emily think the baby should be a girl. Taylor wants the baby to be a boy. Joe says that he would be fine with either and so would I ofcourse...but I can't help secretly (or not so secretly) wishing that it was a boy also, so that we could even up the score.

After finding out... which I will get to in a moment we decided we would tell the kids all together after school. We had an early FHE on prayer and how it works since all children had been praying regularly for what they wanted. We then told them. Can you guess what were having by their reactions?

Before we told the kids!


IT'S A BOY! (I didn't get the really good one of Makayla sobbing!)

If you are wondering where the picture of Emily is...she said, "oh bummer, I wanted a girl." and then went on her way doing her thing. I knew that Makayla would be disappointed but I had no idea the several hours of crying/sobbing/ disappointment etc. would be so dramatic. Then out of nowhere the brilliant idea of going shopping occured to me. I told Makayla and Emily that I would take them to pick out the very first outfits for our little boy and that it would be a girls night out. Problem solved! Well mostly solved if you don't count her not wanting to tell anyone at school. Or her telling me that she didn't understand because she never once forgot to ask for a girl in her prayers but that she knew Taylor forgot a lot to ask for a boy! We, the girls had a lot of fun together shopping and I think there definitely needs to be more of that in the next few months.