I’ll let you all in on a little secret. Back in the day before Holly made me a mommy, the last thing that I wanted was a girl-child. It’s not that I didn’t like girls. I did and I do. I’m a girl. What’s not to like about me? But truth be told, I “got” boys better than I did girls. Growing up I was closer to my brothers than I ever was to the sister I grew up with. More than twenty years separate my youngest sisters and me and while I do treasure our relationships, twenty-plus years separate our lives onto different planes with different adventures. My relationship with my own mother has always been strained…critically ill usually. “Why in the world would I want to be a mother to a daughter?“, I wondered to myself when I was a wise 24 year old?

Then I became the mother to Holly…who prayed for a sister. And then I begat Zoë and then Abigael. People snickered and teased us about having so many daughters. Go ahead, offer a witty quip about the estrogen rich brood that we have been blessed with…we have heard it all. Then came Jodie and one truth was clear. We had perfected the art of making beautiful, amazing daughters.

It’s a gift, you know.

Only the best and the brightest and (sometimes) the bravest of parents have this ability. The rest just make silly feminine hygiene and raging hormones jokes. They’re just jealous of the gift we possess. Thankfully our family was blessed from both sides as awesome, gorgeous daughters seem to run on both sides of the family. It was crystal clear that we had perfected the creation of daughters.

And it would seem that we have passed on this amazing gift/trait to our first born girl-child.

That’s right. Ladies and gentlemen, the Coming Attraction 2.0 has revealed herself to be a GIRL! Mother, father, grandparents, sister, aunties, uncle and the rest of the family rejoices because it is crystal clear that Holly, like her mother before her, gestates beautiful baby girls.

little Miss Coming Attraction 2.0 @ 20 weeks 3 days

little Miss Hazel Faye @ 23 weeks

Holly sent me a picture message last night that compared the 3D ultrasound photos of her two babies and declared, “I make cute babies…thanks for the good genes.“

What can I say, it’s a gift passed on down the generations.