It's a G-I-R-L ! ! !

So I guess my mother's intuition was accurate.  It turns out that we're having a little girl.  Mark actually did get to come with me, which was good...because he wasn't really feeling well, which wasn't so good.  He decided to sleep in a little and come with me to my ultrasound and then go into work late.  I was thrilled to have him with me to find out the gender of the baby and to watch the baby move.

Through this ultrasound I think she was trying to sleep.  She was cuddling her arm up under her head, like she was asleep, and she seemed to be extremely modest, crossing her ankles through most of it.  The sonographer had to try 3-4 times to see the gender.  Eventually we did get to see it, and we got 2 pictures to prove it.

I breathed a sigh of relief when she said it was a girl...not that I would've disliked having another boy.  I just couldn't picture this one being a boy.  I tried imagining the sonographer announcing that it was a boy, but that just felt wrong.  The only scenario that seemed to fit was this one being a girl.  Mark and I both felt that it was a girl, even though he had a dream the previous night that it was a boy, and I was just excited to find that my mother's intuition wasn't way off.

Interested in a few pictures?  Not very many of them are all that cute, but the little girl was just not cooperating.  She seemed to be more interested in sleep than posing for the camera.  She wasn't very active, unlike Canon who jumped and kicked non-stop through the ultrasound.  One similarity was that they both kept moving their arms so that a shadow was cast over the heart when the sonographer wanted to get a clear picture for the four chambers of the heart.

Front view of the face...before she has much chub to fill it out.  Isn't Skeletor cute?

Proof of girl #1.  See the 3 white lines, with the dark partitions...that's how they know it's a girl...
and not just missing the boy parts.

It's a GIRL #2.

fingers curled up under her face, she was lying on her arms

Her ear (at the right arrow) is scrunched up by her shoulder (at the left arrow).

woot woot...showing a little leg!!

Her ankles were crossed for so much that her legs were squished together.  Here you can see one knee over the other (at the right of the picture) and both shins.  Her feet are over the left of the picture, poking out toward us.  I think her legs were cramped between the placenta and uterus.

MY FAVORITE SHOT...her little feet 

This is only one foot, but not as good a shot as the previous one.

this is her arm curling up under her head (ok, so here it looks like it's over her head), but it's like she's trying to use it as a pillow to sleep on.

Her other arm was sticking out into the open, but it kinda looks like she's flexing her muscles.  :)

I'm looking forward to seeing what she'll look like for real once she's born.  But for now, I just need to prepare her older brother and our house to receive this little newcomer.  At least I still have time to enjoy her all to myself!  :)

There have been a couple times when I thought I could feel her kicks with my hand/arm.  However, she doesn't really move a whole lot yet, so it's hard to determine if it was my imagination or not.  I guess it will take another week or so to know for sure.

IT'S A GIRL!!  IT'S A GIRL!!  IT'S A GIRL!!  Did I mention that I'm excited that it's a girl?