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"Busy Philipps will add to her brood early this summer, and no one in the Cougar Town actress&amp;apos; family is more excited about their new addition than Philipps&amp;apos; 4-year-old daughter, Birdie! &amp;quot;She can&amp;apos;t wait to be a big sister,&amp;quot; Philipps enthused to Us Weekly of her daughter with husband Marc Silverstein. &amp;quot;She&amp;apos;s been asking for at least a year: When&amp;apos;s her baby going to come?&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nChoosing to announce her pregnancy via Twitter in mid-December by posting a photo of a positive pregnancy test, Philipps, 33, admits that carrying her second baby is &amp;quot;harder&amp;quot; than her first. &amp;quot;I was shooting Cougar Town through my first trimester and that was really tough,&amp;quot; recalls the star. Young Birdie, however, has had quite an impact on her mom&amp;apos;s mood, and has lifted Philipps&amp;apos; spirits through her excitement over baby No. 2.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;She talks to the baby and she&amp;apos;s just really thrilled,&amp;quot; Philipps explains. &amp;quot;I told her though that it&amp;apos;s okay to feel two ways about it. It&amp;apos;s okay to feel really excited and also nervous or mad or scared. I don&amp;apos;t want her to think she has to be super happy about it all the time because I know it&amp;apos;s going to be . . . a big adjustment for her.&amp;quot;\r\nOpting to keep her baby&amp;apos;s gender a family secret, Phillips&amp;apos; second child will have a built-in playmate in big sister Birdie. One thing the 4-year-old is already adept at? Entertaining her adoring fans!\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;Birdie came home the other day from school and told my husband and I the entire plot of William Shakespeare&amp;apos;s &amp;quot;As You Like It,&amp;quot; which I thought was super impressive!&amp;quot; the actress gushes of her daughter, who admittedly hopes for another girl in the family. &amp;quot;They&amp;apos;re studying Shakespeare at her Montessori school. She just came home and told us the whole plot! It was hilarious to hear -- she knew all the characters&amp;apos; names and who dresses up like a boy and who&amp;apos;s mad at whom! It was so adorable!&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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