Extraordinary Thing #30: Finding Out What You’re Having!
January 17th, 2012 § 5 Comments
I barely slept last night. Was I nervous? Excited? Uncomfortable? Probably all of the above. But I peed at least five times and sat up wide awake at 5, ready to go get my long-awaited 20-week sonogram!!!!!! Eeek!!! Time to find out the sex of Baby No. 2.
(I think Erik was nervous too because he made a bad joke to the nurse about finding out our baby was a monster. Not funny.)
I get overwhelmed during sonograms, and this time, I was lying on the chair watching the baby swim around the screen, and the whole time I was crying, but only one of my eyes was crying. JUST ONE. At least it was dark in there so nobody could see.
So I won’t be one of those people who posts all her sonogram pictures, including the creepy 3-D ones that look like mud creatures. I’ll leave that to my husband. But I will tell you briefly and very calmly that we are having a girl.
A GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So much for serenity. What peace can possibly be found knowing that my daughter will someday go to the prom? With a boy? And how can I ever pass by Baby Gap again knowing that all those girl clothes are in there waiting?
But I’m really excited and happy, and Erik is beyond thrilled. Jack kept pointing at the sonogram pictures saying “baby sister” and then spilled a glass of water on them. An accident? I think not.
Cheers to little girls and new beginnings.
Congrats, Roommate! Girls are surprising in every way. As my girl says “BUT MOM!” while I’m sitting here. Ha!
Surprising how? I need details! Love you, roommate!
With my daughter, I can see her heart, I can see her motivations, her thoughts, her reasonings, and I can’t see my son like that. But my son and I have a more intimate relationship. He loves me like no other. It’s not that my daughter doesn’t love me, it’s more like she also can love lots more people. She’s always stretched for freedom and independence, whereas my son snuggled into security. It’s surprising how very much she is like me, and how very much she is not like me. And then just wait until she decides she has her own fashion sense!
Congratulations!!! We have loved having a girl, except how hard it is to resist buying the cute clothes at the Baby Gap!
How DO you resist? I mean really, did you see those white fur boots they had last season?