Our girl

Yup that is right, we are having a girl! Here are a few glimpses of our sweet girl.

A update

Countdown to the u/s continues.  We are waiting with great- and I do mean GREAT- anticipation.

In other news, A is everything amazing.  He is still telling us that he is not "big", he's a " big brother".  He's also been telling us that "Pa" (E's dad) is his dad.  He did finally tell her that he would "share."  I think it's interesting that he's managed to fill in the pieces to his own story, and grandpa is absolutely flattered.  Everybody wins (especially since E still gets to "share" him!)  Today he told my sister to "be careful, and don't cut yourself, K!" as she sliced him some apple.  He also read a book to his very brand new cousin Z.

I love how he "reads" now.  He loves to spell - stringing random letters together- and then tell us what that spells.  For example, "xkrpa spells airplane!"  He has moved on from loving pink, to loving purple. He loves to cook, and in giving up his pacificers this week he chose a battery power mixer and cookie cutter set as his prize. He also loves his tools and garbage trucks, oh and the Little People Bus is still one of his very favorite- going on two years now! He's also proud that he can make us feel "happy" or "better" by giving us hugs and telling us he loves us. He's the sweetest.

I could go on and on.  I could tell you that the teachers at his pre-school (it's a parent participation program) were absolutely surprised at his drawing ability this week as well as his ability to retain information (raisins come from grapes!).  I do go on and on, I guess.  I'm going to be one of those annoying moms who thinks her children are perfect... (he won't sing the alphabet- STILL, he is painfully shy, and is terrible at catching a ball.  See, I can see the truth!)

He's the most amazing thing in my life, and since I actually slept a bit last night, I truly enjoyed my day with him.  It felt really good to be loving my job again.  It is, by far, the best one I've ever had.

or does it?

Does the ring test use circles for girls or boys?  Perhaps this is why it always works: no one knows if circles are girl or boy!

Our two friends are both having boys and both got circles.  We got lines.  Maybe it's a girl afterall!

Boy or Girl?

As I mentioned in my previous post, I am sick of hearing that we are going to have a girl.  Not so much because it's impossible, but because the fortunetellers are so adamant about their predictions.  Why do they have to be so sure? It's my body and our baby?

Well, over here at the Village, we have been far less than sure.  With everyone around us working so hard to convince us we are having a girl, we've been rather ambivalent in our own predictions. That being said, we are ravenous to know if our little Twig is a boy or a girl.  We've been starting to organize baby things, including a few girl things we've collected from my sister who has two older girls.  The wanting to know is wearing us!

So, in my internet research, it seems that most non-ultrasound prediction methods are easily discredited, including the dra.no test and the how-do-you-carry-test.  (In my own anecdotal experience, it does seem to work overall, but I've also noticed that people that carry babies a particular way carry both their girls and their boys that way, which suggests there is perhaps another correlating factor- but that's for someone else to determine.)  However, the internets seems to be relatively convinced that the ring test actually works.

So.... the ring predicts that those convinced "girl" are wrong. I guess we'll know in a couple of weeks. Argh! 21 weeks u/s is so far away!

18 weeks and counting! A potpourri of baby thoughts.

Life is going well enough here. We will be 19 weeks on Monday, and two weeks from Tuesday we finally have our ultrasound where we hopefully find out boy/girl. I don't have any feelings, and neither does E, but those around us seem (annoyingly) convinced that we are having a girl. Eyeroll.

Today we are working on going through old baby stuff and figuring out what we might need. We did a little BRU registry (30 items) to replace things we will need: diaper bag, new sippy cup things etc... and the co-sleeper we should have bought for A. It's been a baby-tastic day!

I'm feeling so much better. I was pretty down and out until 16 weeks, just as the holidays hit. Could be worse, I suppose. I'm healthy and we're all happy. My GD hasn't even shown up again, so I have nothing to complain about.

As it does every year, the end of the holidays marks a perfect time to recommit to being healthy. I was so ready! So, baby is eating healthfully again and E is on board too.

A is talking more and more about the baby, and that's probably b/c I'm really starting to show now (finally!) nothing like looking pregnant instead of fat. :-) A predicts a brother some days and a sister other days. Far less annoying than the other people that have such strong girl opinions. Argh! His predictions are adorable, of course. We did the ring test, and it came back boy, but who knows how reliable it is.

this post was all over, but so is my brain these days. Life is busy. Life is good.