Our Pumpkin Patch

 

When we did a special treasure hunt to break the news to the girls, they were SO excited.  Macy screamed, "I always wanted a silly bean!  Or, what is it called?  Oh, yeah, a sib-il-ing."  Soon after I'd found out that it was official, but the girls didn't know yet, I was helping Macy fill out a friend book where she includes her picture and answers some questions about herself.  One of the questions was, "If you had a wish, what would it be?"  She said, "A baby brother or a sister."  The girls worked a long time doing their jobs, etc, to fill a bean jar.  When it was filled, they could each choose a Mommy Daughter or Daddy Daughter Date.  Macy said she wanted her date to be shopping with me for something for the baby.  But, she wants to wait to see if  it's a boy our a girl first, so she knows what we should buy.  She does know that she wants to buy an orange stroller.

Although it was not in our plans to have this big of a gap, it is fun to see how much of an opinion the girls already have on things, and fun that they will be want to help so much and be able to remember when their baby sister or brother was little.

The girls wanted to wait to break our news to others until Myles' parents came for a visit, so that we could tell them face to face.  When I said that we might have to tell some people we see because I'd be showing, Carly said, "That's OK.  They'll just think you've been eating more hamburgers."

People were surprised that we told them before we were starting to tell everyone else.  They thought it was fun to keep the secret.  Then, each of them got to choose one person who they wanted to tell first.

We're excited to see around Christmas time if we'll be continuing our pattern of girls or if we'll have a boy this time.  Of course, we're just grateful this little pumpkin is coming!