"Am I Having a Baby Bruda or a Baby Sista?"

So this has been Elizabeth's continual refrain since the time we found out that we were having another precious one. We told her only God knew at that point and that He had already decided. It actually turned out to be a great way to teach her trust and contentment because our mantra around the house became, "God knows if the baby's a brother or sister, and I can be happy with what He gives me."

Well, the same week of Elizabeth's birthday, we also found out the gender of this new one...

IT'S A GIRL!!

We were SO pleasantly surprised because Matt and I had truly expected a little boy. We had a name, a nursery theme, even some boy clothes...the whole works. :) So hearing that it was a little girl brought unexpected tears of joy to my eyes because in my heart I had really hoped for another little girl. (Maybe because we have been so blessed by this first one.) Elizabeth, though perhaps not fully aware of what was happening, was briefly interested in finding out it was a girl. But to explain, she was also distracted by some cool toys the sonographer kept in her office.

Perhaps she also felt the confidence of knowing she had predicted correctly. She kept saying she wanted a sister and that the baby was a girl. That makes her record. 1-0. Matt's is 1-1 (he correctly predicted Elizabeth). And I am 0-2.

Anyway, enough typing, below is a great pic from the ultrasound.
















I rotated the picture for you so that you could look directly at her face. Though she looks a little like a skeleton in this pic, it's cool because you can get a general idea of the shape of her little face. We think she might have a more oval-shaped face like mine as opposed to E's round-shaped face like Matt's.