and then trent and tara announced their pregnancy, and i admit, i jumped on the "boy" bandwagon. boy boy boy boy boy! i wanted it to be. mostly because then all the pressure would be off of the married grandchildren. i'm not exactly going to pop out 5 more puppies in search of a tonka truck loving child. no thank you. and they are having...a girl. which makes me excited because phoebe and their little baby will be in the same grade, and that's just cool in my opinion.
but the pressure, is there. and always has been. ty is the oldest son of an oldest son of...get the picture? but now, it doesn't bother me anymore. something beautiful happened after phoebe. no pressure. no expectations. we are a family of all girls, and i love it. it is wonderful and fun and amazing to see how children of the same sex can be so entirely different from each other, even if they do look EXACTLY alike. the girls are quiet and loud and goofy and flighty and sporty and feminine all at the same time. and the bond between them is inspiring.
this is us, and we love it.
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Don't sweat it Annie. Lizzi is my secon child followed by 3 boys. Even though I had a girl, people thought that Jaxon just must be a girl because Lizzi needed a sister. When Lizzi needs girl time she can come hang out with your girls and if Ty needs a little tesoterone(sp?) he can come hang out with Nathan and the boys :)
Even though Kaden and i haven't had kids yet and given are situation as full-time, super poor, homeless students, we probably wont for quite awhile, but i am really hoping we aren't the first to have the boy. I would much rather start with a girl who has eight or so Leavitt cousins to look up to.
Hey, twins!! On my side AND jakes side there are only girls. We have a girl, my sister has two girls and there are 4 girl nieces on jakes side of the family. There are two nephews as well, but one is a step-nephew and one is an adopted sister's son. That's not to say they are any less our nephews, I'm just saying that it seems our blood can only make girls!
Pretty cool!
Girls Rule!!! :) We LOVE your all girl family...obviously! We're trying to be just like you!!
Girls are great! Poor Emma is sandwiched between two brothers. She wants a sister so badly, but that will never be! Our families are what we need them to be, and what they need them to be, so I say Way to go on finding acceptance, but if that boy grandson ever comes he'll be one spoiled little boy! Oh, and someday they will be so happy to have each other (like when they are done fighting over clothes, shoes, makeup and boys!)
When we were expecting our third, everyone assumed I wanted a boy as well. Truth be told, I would have been thrilled to have another girl. And while I wouldn't trade Grant for anything, there are definitely times when I wonder how anyone can handle more than one boy. He's cute as can be but SO busy all the time! Girls are so fun! I'm glad they are the majority in my house. :)
I'm starting to feel like that over here. I honestly am trying to gear myself up before having another child to getting another girl, because we probably will. And it will be awesome, just like it is for you. :)
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