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It's a Girl!

     Let's start at the very beginning....it's a very good place to start.  (Kudos if you know which song/musical that is from!)

    With 9 boys and 1 girl in the house we were very eager to find out the gender of baby #11.  The odds definitely weren't in our favor.  I made an appointment to find out the baby's gender when I was 13 weeks along.  Gabe and I went to the ultrasound appointment alone.  I wanted to make sure everything was fine with the baby since we hadn't had our first midwife appointment yet, and didn't want the kids to be there if  the baby wasn't moving. 

    It was so great to see our little baby on the screen jumping around.  However, she refused to open her legs to give us a peek at her gender.  No amount of jumping up and down or drinking cold liquids helped.  I was so disappointed!  We left with an appointment scheduled for the following week hoping baby would cooperate.

    The following week I went back to the ultrasound appointment with my sister Mary, who was in town visiting.  We decided she would find out the baby's gender and then we would do a little reveal with the kids.  Again the baby's legs were crossed and the ultrasound tech had a hard time seeing between her legs!  But she was patient and when Imelda opened her legs for a split second, she got a peek and wrote it down for my sister Mary.  

    We then drove to the dollar tree where my sister Mary was unsuccessful in finding anything we could use to reveal baby's gender.  So we headed over to Party City and I went in and roamed the Ross next door while my sister purchased balloons.  She held them down in the car on the way home and I was starting to get hopeful that maybe this was going to be another girl!  One of our boys looked out the window while Mary was putting the balloons in boxes so he got to help Mary tape up the boxes but wasn't allowed to say anything.  Gabe had come home on his lunch break so we went out onto the deck to cut open the boxes with the kids.  My other sister, Sister Johanna also happened to be in town so it was a fun little reveal!  We were SO shocked when pink balloons burst out of the box!!  Another girl!  It was so hard to believe and we were all SO happy!






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