It's a GIRL!!

Baby was a bit uncooperative during the ultrasound - apparently she's shy. She had her hand covering her face at first (though that moved with some fairly violent prodding from the tech) and her little legs were squeezed together pretty tightly, with the umbilical cord between them. The tech couldn't get a good look (but she said she had a guess at gender), so we had to wait on the doc. He came in and had a peek, and said, "don't paint the whole house pink" but he thinks it's a girl. DH asked him to be a little more specific, and he said he's 85% sure. So we're planning on a little girl in June, but we're also open to surprise! It's going to be fun. :)

The whole ultrasound was an amazing experience. We saw the four chambers of her heart, and her beautiful little fingers and toes, and her hand opening and closing. She was kicking the cord, and we could see that happening (and I could feel it too!). But the most amazing thing was just looking at that little person inside me and thinking, "this is our baby." It was so real. I could barely stop myself from crying several times, and DH choked up too. Again, it was amazing. We sat there staring at the screen and holding hands, in awe at the work God has done. It's funny how we prayed and prayed for this little one, but we never knew how much we would love her already. We haven't even met her yet, but there she was on the screen, moving around and sucking her thumb and kicking her cord. And we could hardly contain the emotion of that. I can't imagine how much infinitely more we will feel when she's here!

After we left the hospital we went out to lunch, and DH was telling everyone we met, "We just found out we're having a little girl." He was so excited. We were both on the phone with family and friends for a couple of hours, and then we headed to some baby stores to go shopping. We wanted to start a registry but the system was down... so we just looked around. We made a few decisions, and we're excited about that. Now we need to buckle down and get things ready, and focus on growing a healthy little girl!