it's a girl!!!

So it's official! We're having a girl! The socks in the picture above are how we told my family. We had the ultrasound on Friday morning and then went to my parents house for lunch (Brent and Kristine met us there). Once everyone was there, we had them close their eyes and hold out their hands. We put a pink sock in each of their hands and counted to 3 (yeah, pretty dramatic!). Then they all opened their eyes and screaming/squealing ensued.

At that point in the day it still hadn't hit me. About 90% of you/people were guessing boy, and for a while I thought it was a boy, so I think I just came to expect that it would be a boy. At the ultrasound the lady asked if she could tell what it was did we want to know. I told her I wasn't leaving until we knew! Anyway, about 5 minutes in she said she thought it was a girl, but needed another angle. So we couldn't really react because we weren't sure...then about 15 minutes later she was able to find a good angle (shown below) and confirm that it's a girl. But it didn't really hit me, I think I was just in a daze. Part of me wanted a boy for Joey because I thought it would calm him in the whole process. However, by Friday night when we were laying in bed I said I was over him and I was happy that it was a girl! hehe.

proof that it's a girl:

This girl thing has also changed my mind about nursery colors. I was totally into this neutral thing and using green...but my love for purple has come through pretty strong. It is taking some convincing on my part to get Joey to agree to purple, but a pregnant woman should never lose, right? We'll see what happens!

Here are a few more pics from the ultrasound...this 3D stuff is pretty amazing! And I suppose I should also report that everything is measuring normal, levels are good, and all that stuff that you want to hear at the 20 wk ultrasound. My placenta is currently in front of my cervix, so I get another ultrasound at 26wks to make sure it has moved out of the way (so yay, free ultrasound!).

Finally, my mom stopped by on Saturday to drop off some soup (we had a little cold in our house), my pregnancy pillow present, AND these cute little cupcakes!! You can't tell, but the muffin cups also have Tinkerbell on them! Yay!