Expanding from 3 to 4

I guess it’s time to make the news official.  The Woods Family will have a new addition in early June.   I am currently 19 weeks along so almost at the half way point.  We are very excited!

When we first told Brady we were expecting back in November his reaction was hilarious.  If I recall, it went something like this.  Brady, we’re going to have a new baby joining our family.  Brady, “Huh”.  Mommy is going to be having a baby.   Brady, “Ok, Let’s go to Target and pick out a baby.”  No, the baby is inside Mommy’s belly.  Brady, “I can’t see it.”   Brady proceeds to lose interest. 

We continued to talk about the baby and finally convinced him that in fact the baby was not coming from Target.  He even started saying that he wanted a little sister.  One day, he was talking about his sister and I asked him if a sister was a girl or a boy.  Brady said boy.  I explained to him that a sister is a girl.  Brady states, “I want a boy and I want him to be three.”  I think to myself this is going to be a pretty impossible feat, but I have plenty of time to convince Brady it’s ok if the baby is not three.

Wednesday morning we had our sonogram.  Before we headed to the appointment we asked Brady one more time whether he wanted a brother or a sister and he said a boy.  After we picked Brady up from school we showed him the Ultrasound pictures.  Then we told him he was going to have a little sister.  Brady’s reaction with a very serious face, “No, it’s a boy.”   We talked about it for a couple more minutes and he finally agreed that he was ok with having a sister and that he was going to be a helper.  Specifically he’s offered up his services to feed and play with the baby.  We will see how that goes when the time comes.  

We are very thrilled to have a baby girl joining the family.  Our bank account may suffer, but it will be well worth it.

I am typically not a fan of posting ultrasound pictures since I can never tell what I’m looking at, but I am going to share anyways.