THINK PINK, PINK, PINK!!!!!! :)

Well, today was the day.....so, start thinking PINK! IT'S A GIRL!! :) AHHHHHH!!! I can't believe it! ...I never had a hunch...or a preference...but, for some reason, I can't believe it's a girl!! How exciting to finally know!! :) I must say that after having gone through this today, there is NO WAY in a million years I would have passed up finding out what we're having! Some people decide not to find out and let it be a surprise...which is great! But, WOW!! ...what an awesome experience it was to find out today!! I mean, I have a daughter! And Patrick is going to be a dad to a little baby girl!! :) ...which he will be so perfect at!! And now I get to talk about her and how she's doing....and I can imagine what she'll look like and think about her as my little baby girl...I can't stop thinking about it; I am SO, SO excited and I have never been as happy about anything as I am about our news!! I can't wait to see who she looks like! Whether she is a red head or white head....this baby is going to be adorably and fantastically CUTE! :)

AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

SO, about the appointment, the sonogram was first. If you've been following the blog, you know that I still haven't felt any baby movement. So, lately I was starting to worry...just a little...about why I may not be feeling any movement. One thing I was thinking was that maybe the baby was growing a little slower than normal (and was smaller than usual), and perhaps that's why I couldn't feel the movement. So, when she was measuring and checking everything for the baby, she wasn't saying anything. So, in my head, I was wondering if everything was alright. So, I finally asked, "Does everything look alright?" She said that everything looked great. At that moment, I felt pure relief and immediately got teary eyed (big surprise, I know). Earlier, she asked us if we wanted to know the sex and we, of course, said yes! So, shortly after she assured me that the baby was developing properly, she found what she was looking for....and she said, "it looks like a girl!" I couldn't help it...my breath was completely taken away and...yes, the tears were flowing. I actually never looked at Patrick; I just held his hand the whole time. The screen was on my right, and Patrick was on the left, and I couldn't take my eyes off the screen. I guess I should have taken a look at him to see his reaction...but I couldn't stop looking at my baby GIRL!!! :) We're really very happy. :)

These are two of the sonogram pics that I got. You can click here if you want to see the others. I really like the lady that does the sonograms, but she's not very good at getting the good pictures! She gets such great shots while we're looking at the live sono, but she never hits the "take a picture" button at the best times! She mostly took profile pictures. There were so many good ones that I wish we had. One of my favorites this time was a profile- she was sucking her thumb! :) We could see her mouth and tongue just working away! She looked perfect. ....I said with the first sono that the baby had Patrick's lips....she definitely still has Patrick's lips... :) ;)

What a great day....