TOTALLY thought we were having Twins....

Nope!

Nathan knew the whole time. 

TOTALLY thought we were having a boy!

Nope!

Nathan knew the whole time.

It's A Girl!

Guess who is SO excited to have a sister!

"Is this balloon for me?"

 "Yes! What color is it?"

"PiiiiinK!"

 "Ahhhh!!! I'm so excited!"

 "Yes! Yes! Yes! Ahhhh!"

 "Ok, hold still so I can get a picture of you and the balloon being still."

 "Oh, turn the balloon. Smile big!"

 "Oops! The balloon is fuzzy, hold still. Smile big!"

 "Let the balloon go."

 "ah! The balloon turned!"

 "Mom! Can I just play with my pink balloon?"

"Fine! Go ahead!"

I really did think we were having twins.  

A boy and a girl. 

One third of me would be dead serious to Nathan and insist there were two in my tummy, to scare him, never worked. I would even try to think of "scary" situations like: "Oh my! How are we going to fit in our car with twins!" or "Oh my! We're gonna need two cribs!" He would always calmly retort with very viable solutions. And shake his head at me.

One third of me hoped, so we could grow our family faster.

One pregnancy and two labors, back to back. 

Sounds good to me!

AND

One third (the biggest one third) hoped we weren't. 

Two infants!

Two babies!

Two toddlers!

Yikes!

Twins would be awesome!

And yet so scary!

My head bows to all my friends and family who have had twins.

I must confess, I was hoping for a boy. 

And it all comes down to the hair!

I hate doing my own hair.

Doing Marley's isn't so bad.

Well, after I catch her:

"Marley! Time to do you're hair! Come here!"

"Can't catch me!"

and lately it's

"Ha ha ha! Can't catch me I'm the ginger bread man!"

"Ginger bread men don't have hair. This is not a game, get over here."

Ok, sometimes I chase her...which doesn't help with the times I don't want to chase her.

 I usually just spray leave-in conditioner in her hair and let her have it down with beautiful curls. 

Or I put a piggy tail in it, either on the back or up top.  

I like the piggy tail up top the best because it keeps the hair out of her face and even after putting on her winter hat, it still looks like I did her hair. 

But, she likes it on the back of her head or just down. 

With both of those styles, once she puts her winter hat on 

BAM!  

looks like I didn't even do it!

Please don't get me wrong though...I'm excited!

And last night I had a dream I held our new little infant girl in my arms...she's beautiful!