Sweetest Reaction Ever When Texas Siblings Meet Adopted Sister: Video

ROWLETT, TX — Not all children squeal in delight when a new baby joins the family, but the reaction of two north Texas girls when their parents brought a newborn baby home was priceless. Excitement rippled in their high-pitched voices. They jumped up and down. “Are you kidding me?” Harper Pruitt, 6, asked when Shane and Kasi Pruitt carried their fifth child through the door of their Rowlett home. Raygen, 11, broke down in tears.

Raygen and Harper had known for about 10 months that their parents were trying to adopt another child to join them and their younger adopted brothers, Titus and Elliot, and had been asking their parents for month if they had gotten the call about their new brother or sister. When word came on July 25 about the newborn baby girl, they kept it to themselves so they wouldn’t disappoint the girls if the adoption fell through at the last moment.

When Raygen and Harper did meet their baby sister, the introduction was captured on video the Pruitts shared on their Facebook and Twitter accounts as birth announcements. (For more local news, click here to sign up for real-time news alerts and newsletters from Dallas Patch, or click here to find your local Texas Patch. Also, if you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

“Their two reactions are very fitting for their personalities,” Shane Pruitt, director of missions for the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention, told ABC News. “Harper, we say she’s very spicy [and] Raygen loves to take care of others.”

Raygen and Harper “definitely think they’re mommas, too,” Pruitt said.

The girls have enjoyed watching themselves on the videos, and Pruitt figures they’re responsible for at least 200 of the viral shares of the posts. As long as it “shines a light on adoption and encourages other families to step up and be foster parents or adopt, then that’s the ultimate win,” he said.

Pruitt told “Inside Edition” his heart swells when he sees his three daughters together.

“It just blessed our heart and made us feel blessed as parents, to not only see our family grow but it also blessed us to see our older children respond in that way,” Pruitt said. “To see their love, you know we are not perfect as parents, but in that moment it felt like we were doing something right.”

Image via AP video