On Thursday, October 22nd at 12:12 p.m. my family was introduced to quite a surprise! We were expecting my sister-in-law, Heather, to have birth to a baby girl, but instead, we got a boy! She spent her entire pregnancy thinking it was a girl (the doctor said she was 100% positive it was a girl) and so she had EVERYTHING pink! And, Heather is not the type to put her newborn kids in anything that hasn't been washed, so she took all the tags off the clothes and washed them all! Pretty sweet!
It was definitely a surprise but we are extremely excited to have a new nephew. It took Doug and Heather the entire pregnancy to come up with a name for a girl (she was going to be named Lily) so they have had quite a difficult time coming up with a name for a boy. At first, it was going to be Ryan. Then, I suggested McKay (I just went through all the names of boys in my class and put them out there) and that was going to be the name for awhile. Now, it's Brady. But who knows? The kid is two days old, there's a lot of time to change it! :)
My niece, Emily and nephew, Colby (the siblings) have been really funny about the whole situation. At first, Emily was really mad. She locked herself in her room (she's 4) and wouldn't talk to anyone. She thought that mom and dad had tricked her by telling her it was a boy instead of a girl. She was really upset, especially because she had already divided up all of her bows and dresses to share with the baby! Colby, on the other hand, was pretty happy about having another boy around. After Emily had had a couple of hours to digest the information, she was still upset. She didn't like any of the names that Doug and Heather suggested but she just wanted another Colby. When told that they already had a Colby, she said that she wanted two Colby's. Colby then piped up and said, "Yeah, two Colby's!" Then, Emily got to the point where she said she would love the baby, but she wouldn't talk to him when he got older! After Doug and Heather and the baby came home, everything changed, though. Emily adores the baby and can't get enough of him. She wants to hold him all the time, help change his diaper, etc. It is really quite cute how she has reacted to the whole thing.
Well, hopefully some pictures to come! We are so happy to have a new baby nephew!
