It's a.....?????

In the midst of an exciting week celebrating Sam's one year birthday and Grandpa and Grandma Vander Stelt in town, we had our 20 week ultrasound for Baby B!  With such a busy week, we had little time to obsess or think about it until the morning of, when mom was full of anxious anticipation and excitement!  

Boy or girl??  Mom and dad's intuition was a girl - no real strong reasoning for that except for minor variations in this pregnancy from the first - less nausea, no acne (so far), and other small things.  With all the boys born to relatives and friends the last year and a half, mom also felt statistically it was time for a girl!

Well, at the end of the ultrasound, we found out we were having a.... GIRL!!!!  Mom started crying (she did finding out Sam was a boy too :)) and so excited to add a girl to their family!  Dad was excited and glad that since we were having a girl, we already had the "Enforcer" in place (Big Brother Sam!!)

Here are the first pictures of our baby girl!

 We had both sets of grandparents over for dinner the day we found out we were having a girl - we had been somewhat deceptive and told them the ultrasound was later in the week so we could surprise them at dinner.  Well, everyone was surprised and excited - maybe except Sam, who started crying - but I think it was the loud reaction to the news from everyone that scared him, not the news!

It will be so fun to have a little girl to add to our family!  We have gotten a few cute gifts already to start her wardrobe - a "Little Sister" outfit from Colleen Kron and some sock monkey samples from Kelly's work!  I'm sure mom will enjoy adding to this - so far I have not bought any clothes for her, but i do have some ruffled bloomer patterns on the way.... :)

 

We are SO EXCITED!!!  

18 More weeks to go....  I actually don't mind waiting a little bit as I've finally been enjoying full nights of sleep!