It's A Girl!!!

Yesterday Trevor and I went to a private ultrasound place to find out the gender of our baby. The ultrasound technician took one look at her face and said, "I bet it's a girl. Look at that cute little nose." Sure enough, when he went to check between her legs, there was a whole lot of nothing! I was ecstatic, grinning a mile wide throughout the whole ultrasound. I had begun to feel convinced that we were going to have a boy, so this was a nice little shock! At the beginning of the ultrasound, I think she was sleeping. She had her arms over her face and looked so cozy. But then the ultrasound tech nudged her so that she would roll over onto her side and she wasn't very pleased with that, because she started kicking at me. (It was cool to see, because it's still too early for me to actually feel her movements.)

After the ultrasound we got to tell our parents and siblings, and everyone was so excited for us. My sister-in-law, Lisa, is also having a little girl, so they'll be little girl cousins. Trevor's dad responded to the news by saying, "Looks like we'll be having princess parties."

I'm so thrilled to be having a girl. I grew up with mostly all boys, so I was really hoping for a daughter. Trevor had been hoping for a boy, but when I saw him smiling during the ultrasound, I knew he would be just fine with a little girl. We're pretty sure that we're going to name her Alia (pronounced AW-lee-uh), and the funny thing is, we'd decided on that name for a girl early on, but we were having a really hard time coming up with a boy name...and now we know why. We didn't need it!