Like I said in the beginning, I am just not good at being consistent with these things. As most of you know, a lot has happened since my last post. We decided the week of Christmas that we were going to find out the sex of the baby and surprise the family. We found out it was a GIRL!! Since then, I have heard a number of instences where people were told they were having a girl and it ended up being a boy when the baby was born. I'll admit I am a little freaked out that this would happen and that we would have a boy and no other choice than to dress him in all the non-returnable pink items we had expected to be dressing a little girl in. I know there are much worse things that could happen, but I was not feeling confident at the thought of this. Yesterday we had our level 2 ultrasound at Kaiser. It was a little over an hour of the ultrasound tech doing his thing and making sure that the heart, lungs, brain, kidneys and all the other important parts were developing as they should. We were so thankful to find out that the tech said everything looked like it was progressing as it should. He confirmed that we are going to have a little girl and I made sure that he was confident in this. He reassured us that after 30 years of doing this, that he wasn't wrong often. So that is all the reassurance I can get at this point. So I am trying to proceed with confidence and if there are any little surprises, there is nothing I can do about it at this point and worrying about it doesn't do any good. We are working on the name game and think we have settle on our little girls first name, but are having a more difficult time finding the perfect middle name to go along with it. Before we found out we were having a little girl, we had done a little talking about names, but decided to wait until we knew whether it was going to be a girl or a boy. When we found out we were having a little girl back in December, we left the ultrasound office and asked each other what name (that we had previously talked about) immediately came to mind when they told us it was a girl. It was unanimous. We both thought Zoey. So unless we have a major change of heart and hesitation in the next few months, our little Zoey is growing and developing as healthy as can be expected. We are very excited and hoping for our house plans to move quickly and smoothly so we can really start to settle into the idea that we are having a little girl and we have a good place for her to lay her little head, crawl for the first time and maybe even take her first steps (don't worry grandpa, we will have baby gates if steps and pools are in our future home).
