20 weeks, Ultrasound, and Adelia's Birthday

 June 13th was an exciting one around here.  Our wild-n-sassy Adelia Rose turned 3! Yes, 3!!! Who can believe it?  It was also the day of our ULTRASOUND! It was so special to share these to occasions and to have the gift of knowing what our next little bundle of joy will be.

We started the day off by singing waking up Adelia to "Happy Birthday" ... cat included.

Opening her umbrella and her Ariel swimming suit -which was too small. Great

 Tianna made her a Little Mermaid picture

 Aunt Val, Uncle James and Cousin Jacomo sent her a gift which arrive on the porch that day.  It was exciting for her to get a package. Don't mind the cat doing her biz behind her...oops

 Ariel and 2 sisters-- this will prove to come in handy later when I made her cake for Saturday!

 The girls built a fort to play in

 and as a special birthday gift-- Lilly let her hold her for longer than 2 seconds

 At dinner I had Luke snap a 20 WEEKS shot.  Half way there little baby!

 Birthday girl wanted in on one too.

 Dinner at Tsing Tao's--- Adelia requested Chinese food

 Then we headed off to our ultrasound which wasn't until 6:30 pm.  Adelia innocently asked, "So does the doctor cut open your belly so we can see the baby?"  So we had to again explain how ultrasounds work. :

(I tried to scan the profile picture of our sweet baby, but I apparently don't know how to work the scanner.)  
We were so grateful to find the baby is healthy, and she's growing just right.

Catch that? Yes. i said she.  We are thrilled to announce baby numero 3 is another girl! We really are excited.... would have loved a baby boy, but we are still very happy.

However, Luke likes to buy the girl's boy toys just to balance things out around here.

Happy Birthday Adelia. We love you So SO much.  You test our patience each and every day....... but we wouldn't change you for anything.
You are feisty and high spirited yet also very loving and affectionate.  We call you our Sour Patch Kid (or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde...)
You have an attitude which can get you into trouble, but also keeps us laughing..  our all time favorite story about you and your 'tude, is when Daddy's coworker, Evan, told you to slow down eating your Frosty or you'll get a headache.  You turned to give him a crusty look and said flatly, "Just do your work."  and went on shoving ice cream into your mouth.

Our home is so full of joy because of you.  Thanks for being such a delight.  Love you always and forever, Little Rosie Rose!