It's a girl!

So, obviously it's been a long time since I posted anything. For a while, Clark was getting his two year molars and decided 45 minutes was the longest he would nap. Since I usually write blog posts while he's napping, I decided to clean house, do laundry, complete my Bible study, etc instead of blogging since I had such a short amount of time. Now that his molars are in (Praise God!) he's gone back to normal naps. Maybe I'll get back to blogging more consistently, but I won't promise.

Our big news this week is we found out we're having a girl!!! We found out five days ago and I still can't contain myself I'm so excited! I truly don't think I thought it was possible it was a girl, so I was trying to get as excited as I could anticipating the news we were having another boy. Now, don't get me wrong, I love boys and I wouldn't trade my boy for anything in the entire world. I know if we had another boy I would have loved him just as much as I love Clark and I couldn't have imagined my life without him. I kept also reminding myself that this is our second child, the same number child as Michael is in his family. Obviously his parents were probably hoping he was a girl since they already had a boy, but my life would be so different if he weren't a part of it. I kept thinking, if this baby is a boy he's going to bless someone else's life the way Michael has blessed mine. So, I was fully prepared to be excited when the ultrasound tech told us we were having a boy. When she said it was a girl I didn't believe her at first. I actually made her go back and double check just to be sure.

Several people have said, "Oh that's perfect you're having a girl, now you can have one of each and don't have to have any more children." It surprised me the first time someone said it. I love children and we would love to have more than two children. I don't see this as completing our family, but instead from this point on I don't care if we have boys or girls. If this baby had been a boy I would have really wanted a girl next time around, but since this one's a girl I don't care in the future.

That was a long explanation, but those were just the crazy things running around in my pregnant brain.

The best news we received at the sonogram is that our little girl is very healthy. The doctor said she rarely has a time when there isn't something on the sonogram they want to go back and check later to make sure there isn't a problem, but she said on ours the tech was able to find everything she was looking for and the baby looks perfectly healthy. Obviously this is a huge answer to prayer for me. Every night when I'm putting Clark to bed we pray for him and for our baby. I always pray that God would knit him/her (now I can pray for her specifically) together perfectly and that her little organs would form in just the right way. Praise God for the work he's been doing in creating our little baby! We are beside ourselves with thankfulness.