Its a....

GIRL!!!

I know most of you already know this by now, but on December 20, 2013, we found out that we are having a little girl! Name to be announced at a later date..

 

 

We had our appointment at 11 am, and they told me to come with a full bladder. So I downed what im sure was equivalent to a small ocean of water before we went in, and then they told me that I had to hold it. Umm Im sorry, this is hard for me anyway, not to mention when im 20 weeks pregnant. I asked the lady if I could go to the bathroom as soon as I got there..and she goes “Umm sure..I guess, just try to go a little bit, and then stop it mid flow so your bladder does not empty”. Ugh, okay cool. So I go in…barely make it to the toilet and my bladder just unloads…do you think that I could stop a geyser of water mid flow? No. I tried to stop it, I did…but It just would not stop. I figured it would be fine…so I went to sit back down…and I wish I was kidding…but as soon as I sat down I had to pee again. UGH. This time I held it, I didn’t want to press my luck with not having a full bladder at my appointment. They called us in soon after and got right to work with the ultrasound, checking for this and that and making sure that the little bean was healthy and functioning properly. The first thing she says to me when she takes a peek inside my internal organs..."Wow, you really do have a full bladder.." Ya think? Im an overachiever..I did not disappoint...

 

 

 

The little feet that I will probably munch on later...

We told them that we wanted them to seal the gender in an envelope so we could open it on our Christmas, which was going to be the next morning. We wanted it to be special instead of just being told at our appointment. How we both managed to not look at the screen when they were in that general area is beyond me.

I loved being able to see her move and play with her fingers, and stretch and play with her feetsies. She sucked her thumb and was just moving all over the place. It was so cool to be able to see this little girl just alive and well. They even did a 3D ultrasound, which of course they all look kind of weird in those. We werent’ able to catch a glimpse of her face in that one because the sweet little princess had her hands in front of her face. Im imagining she was saying, “No pictures please, I don’t have my makeup on yet”. So exciting.

"Im not ready for my close up...."

Afterwards, we both had to go to work, which was tough because we just wanted to open the envelope right then and there. Tim hid the envelope from me, because I think we both knew that I probably would have snuck a peek. When we got home from work we were going to go to dinner and go see the movie Frozen, but honestly…could not wait any longer. We were thinking that we didn’t want to rush through Christmas just to get to the envelope that would tell us our child-to-be’s gender. So we made the joint decision to open it before our date night. It was such a sweet moment for us to find out who was going to be joining our little family first. I am so excited to start this journey with the man of my dreams and can’t wait to add this little princess to our growing family!

 

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