Decker Baby #3

We will soon be a family of 5! In the beginning of December I used this picture to make our announcement (with the sweet assistance of my boys): 

A special little gift will be joining our family in May! We are excited to find out at
Christmas whether we will have another boy or a girl!

Luckily time has flown by this time of year and before I knew it I was already 20 weeks and ready for my ultrasound on Monday, December 22. We dropped the boys off and Luke met me at the doctor's late that afternoon and got started right away. I was really nervous because I wanted a girl so badly but felt I needed to prepare myself for the idea of having another boy since my pregnancy has been the same and as easy as they were before. 

But as the nurse was going through all the body parts on the ultrasound, without warning she said casually, "..And there are the girl parts.." And for a second I didn't realize she was already revealing the gender and then I gasped and said "Are you serious? Are you sure?!" Once she proved she was positive it was a girl, Luke tells me, "You did it Kara! You got your girl!" Ha it was awesome. 

So then we needed to go home and finish packing that night because the next day we were flying out east to see our families for Christmas and were waiting until then to reveal the gender. But that night before the boys went to bed we were able to tell them, and Jacob was especially anxious to find out. 

Here was their reactions to the news!

So the boys are excited and our families were happy as well. When we told each of our families I was wearing something pink to give them a hint, so it was fun to be able to see all our family and tell them in person over Christmas. On my side of the family my brother James and his wife Tammy are expecting a boy a few weeks before us; and in Luke's family we'll be the first between his sisters to have both boys and a girl. 

A week later I made my news public with this announcement: 

We are thrilled to announce the newest addition to our family will be a baby GIRL!

Everyone has been so excited for us and we appreciate all the love! We feel so blessed with our little family and are so excited to have the opportunity to raise a girl now too! I think I'm still getting used to the idea of having to start over with new girl clothes and toys- it's odd after being so used to the boy things! Luckily there's still time to get organized and think of a name, because ready or not, baby girl is due May 9th!