It's A....

GIRL!                                                                                            
 

It's a girl! It's a girl! It's a girl!!!! I am so excited to have a little girl, can you tell?! 

1. because I just knew it all along.

2. just because it will be so fun to have a girl. Bring on the tutus and bows. It would have been great either way really, I am just happy to finally know sure and plan. :)

 It is so amazing to be able to call her baby "ELLE" (her nickname) and refer to her as something other than Slim, her previous nickname.  She is really starting to move around and kick more! I absolutely love it. 

Anyway here are the details on the sono.

We scheduled the sono for Oct 6th (5 days before my b-day!) pretty much the best gift ever! When we got there I was just so nervous and jittery. I kept wondering if we would be able to find out that day. I was imagining what the tech would say and how I felt about each possibility. Even though I was very confident it was a little girl. 

Side bar: A few days before I could barely concentrate at work thinking about the impending sono. I just asked God to give me a sign or peace about the baby. All of a sudden, and I can't even explaining it I just had this overwhelming feeling it was a girl and she was perfect and healthy. 

Back to the actual sono. We get called back and I lay on the table. The tech was so nice and friendly. She asked if we wanted to know the gender and I exclaimed YES! She told me that I would have to wait until the end because she wanted to get all the other measurements first. Ok, just hurry up already. :) I kept scanning the screen watching our ever growing baby in amazement, but hoping I would see something that would say boy or girl. HA! Just watching her kick around and move on the screen was amazing. She was a little skelator looking, but so perfect in every way. I couldn't believe how much she changed from that 8 week little jelly bean blob. It was a real live baby in there. God is good. Everything was looking very good and healthy. However, the tech said I had a low lying placenta and probably cause for my early spotting. She said my Dr. would discuss it with me more, but it means I get a "free" extra sono at 30 weeks to rule out placenta previa, which would mean I would have to have a C-section as I would be unable to deliver vaginal. Prayers for that. I want to avoid a C-section at all costs!  Finally, came the "good" part. The tech was scanning away and then all of a sudden she says "it's a girl" at first I thought I had mis-heard her. I didn't think we were at the gender part yet. I had to ask her to say it again to be sure I heard correctly! Again she said "it's a girl" and then she typed it on the screen. I squealed in delight and told Chad "I told you! I just knew it was a girl!!" He said "yes, I know you are always right. ;) " The tech printed our pictures and off to our OB appointment went full of glee!

 19 weeks bump shot

 It has been great to finally start planning the nursery, we bought a beautiful crib today and I can't wait to get it put together and get started! Well that is all I have for now! Everything is going great and smoothly I couldn't ask for a better pregnancy!