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Another Baby Girl!

That's right!  We are having another precious baby girl!  We are so excited!  Yesterday we went to have a 15 week 3D/4D ultrasound to determine the sex of our baby.  I felt in my heart that it would be another girl, based on the heart rate at our last two appointments, Ava was for sure that it would be a girl, and Kyle didn't really have any predictions.  We spent a good chunk of our Saturday morning watching our precious new baby inside my womb.  It was truly amazing!    She stayed in the same position the entire time we watched her...lounging away comfortably.  She is already a thumb sucker...she kept putting her thumb in her mouth throughout the entire ultrasound.  She also loves hanging on to the placenta that's floating around in there with her.  She held on to it with one arm and her hand was either by her mouth or in her mouth for the rest of the time.  This is totally unlike Ava when she was in the womb.  Ava was a crazy girl, flipping and flopping all around!




We had our baby's beautiful name already picked out.  Anniston Leigh Brooks.  We are so glad that we can talk about her and pray for her by name now.

Our afternoon consisted of telling the family what we were having and what the name would be.  My sister came up with a fun idea for a gender reveal party, so we had to tell her before that began.  We filled up a black balloon with pink confetti and let her pop it.  She was ecstatic!  We let Ava do the same thing with a balloon and she was happy, but it was no big surprise to her that she would be having a baby sister, she's basically known since day one.  The family came over and we divided them into four teams.  Each team had to put together a white puzzle that would reveal the name of the baby.  The team that finished first got to shout out the name for the rest of the family.  This was such a fun way to tell everyone!  After we shared the big news, we all came in and watched the DVD of the ultrasound and had some refreshments.  It was such a fun day!  Everyone is SO excited to welcome sweet Anniston to our family in November!














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