Just couldn't wait!!!

I really wanted to wait til my next ultrasound on the 15th to “announce” this, just to be sure. I really wanted to wait to send out the news on a Christmas card. But….well….I’ve never been really good at waiting! And Wade likes to tell everyone he sees what it is. Punk isn’t much help!

As it turns out, Wade’s prediction from the beginning was correct! The doctor says it looks like the boys are getting a baby sister!!

I’m still kind of in shock. I haven’t bought one single pink thing and I’m really not sure why! Even when I go look at baby stuff, I find myself gravitating to the baby boy section. Guess it’s just habit!

I do know that I get all choked up when I think about her. Years ago, when I found out I was pregnant with Wade, I wanted a boy SO BADLY so that any future girls of ours would have a big brother. Now this little girl will have TWO big brothers! And the thought of a baby girl with her daddy….oh boy….talk about getting sappy! I’m actually crying as I write this! LOL! I think it has a lot to do with my own dad being gone, and how I’ll get to see my daughter grow up ALL the way with her dad. Kind of live vicariously through her and watch her have the experiences I didn’t get to. She’s not even born yet, and I’m already thinking about how I’m going to be an emotional wreck when Chuck dances with her at her wedding. Or when he’s a Grandpa and holds his daughters first baby.

Don’t get me wrong, I love watching my boys with their dad. How they look like him, and act like him (well, I USUALLY like that part…) and talk like him. But there’s just something different with a Daddy and his little girl. If I know my husband, he is going to be putty in her hands too! He’s bad enough with the boys, but can you imagine the horses and ponies her and I are going to easily talk daddy into buying?

A very good friend of mine is a fabulous photographer, and is going to do what is called a Birth Story for me. Basically, she takes a billion pictures of the whole labor and delivery process. I’m SO excited for this, because she takes amazing pictures and I just love her to pieces! I think I will tell her “Take about five hundred thousand daddy-daughter pics!” LOL!

For all those wanting all the little details, the doctor’s exact words were “it looks awfully girly to me! Really flat there…..and three white lines there!”. I was as shocked at the three white lines as I was the two pink lines I saw months ago! Lol! I think the doctor was as excited about the gender as I was, because that’s the very first thing he checked, and actually almost forgot to measure her to see how far along I was! We had talked about how baby #3 is the one that pushes you over the edge. Like 2 kids is no big deal, but once you have 3, you might as well have 12! (My doc is awesomely funny, by the way! I just love him!) I told him that I can handle 3 kids, but 3 BOYS might just send me to the insane asylum! So I think he was pretty happy to tell me it looks like a girl!

When he got around to actually measuring her, she measured at 20-21 weeks. Not the 17 like I thought I was. Long story short, I wasn’t exactly sure when I got pregnant, but I *thought* it was AFTER my appendectomy this past summer. I guess it was right BEFORE the surgery, so it didn’t show up on the HCG test they did. But she looks healthy, and he calmed my fears about being pregnant during all that surgery crap. Said there’s nothing to worry about. I also discussed being induced with this one with him, because my babies are always in a hurry to come out and I live an hour and a half away from the hospital. My babies are also usually in SUCH a hurry, that they decide come out a week or two earlier than expected too. My technical due date is April 5th, but we’ll schedule and induced labor a couple weeks before then, just to be safe.

SO. The story is: Unless this midget grows new parts between now and the next ultrasound, our Whitley Makenna will join us some time around the end of March!

*Note: And equally sappy and crazy-emotional-pregnant-momma blog will be coming soon regarding the naming of our little girl!