Hi everyone! It's a Boy!

In the Chinese language when you take the word for girl 女 and you add the character for boy 子, you get the character for good 好. It makes sense, right? When a family has a daughter and a son it is considered lucky. We are very lucky! We are excited to announce that we will be having a little baby boy in November. We made the announcement a while ago on our Facebook pages but quickly realized that not everyone is on Facebook, so we wanted to post here as well.

We are all so excited. Maleah is so cute. We have decided to go through the public hospitals, but in order to know the sex of the baby we had to go to a private doctor. Cassie and Maleah made the trek on their own since I had to work. Maleah knows that she has to be a helper to her mom so she is always so patient at the doctors office and listens well. When Cassie was getting the ultra sound, Maleah was up on the bed with Cassie and she got so excited when she could see the baby. "Baby! Oooh Mom! Baby!" She is doing pretty well with the whole concept of the baby being inside Mommy's tummy. Then she saw and recognized the hand (we don't have to worry about counting the fingers on this one) "Hand Mom, Hi Baby, Hand!" It is so cute! The first thing she told me when I got home was, "Baby hand Dad!" She is really going to be the best big sister. For example- The other day at church Maleah heard the baby behind us start crying. She got very concerned and started saying "Ooh Mom, Tissue. Baby cry!" We were sitting close to the back and it was a ways to the door with a lot people to walk through. It didn't stop Maleah, she hoped down, informed us she was going to get some tissue and then started walking towards the door. At that point where she knew that if she took another step she couldn't see us anymore she looked at us, looked at all the people sitting on the bench, and then I could see in her eyes that leap of faith where she took a deep breath and plunged into the unknown. I was so proud of my brave little daughter. When Cassie went after her she found Maleah distracted by the water dispenser. She was getting paper cups and attempting to fill them up. I wonder what her plan was to get the tissue for the crying baby, but I'm sure she would have found the solution. We love that girl!

We also love our little boy who is growing so fast in that tummy. We will be pulling out the ball gloves, basketballs and soccer cleats. We are having a boy and we are so blessed!