Spoiler Alert!!! --- The Doc told us the sex of the baby!!!

So if you are one of those people that don't want to know what sex a baby is before they are born you'd better stop reading. I finally "caved" and let Xan talk me into finding out what Little Buddy was going to be last week. Honestly I was totally cool with it, but it was fun messing with her for the last 5 months. (Yeah, sometimes I enjoy a little internal humor, what can I say???)

So last Thursday we went to the doctor for the first real ultrasound. (We already had one for the down syndrome screening which came back good!!!!) This didn't carry the same excitement factor for me as the first one because I had seen it before. But.... that is a VERY relative thing. It was still AMAZING!!!

So we sat there for like 15 minutes looking at our amazing creation and the technician was pointing out all these parts of the baby. There is a femur, there is the lower leg, there is a hand or a foot. Every time she mentioned a hand or foot I would jump up and count the fingers and toes. 10 toes and 10 fingers. We're looking good!!!

They also took a look at the heart beat and even measured the rate and it was where it should be. The tech did mention that Little Buddy was moving around a lot in there. Xan said it's defintely taking after her at this point. But since there isn't a TV and a couch in there it's not really a far comparison. My kid would be bored and anxious with nothing to do too.

Anyway.... after a lot of looking at still pretty cool stuff we told the person we wanted to know the sex of the baby. She asked if we were sure and we said yes and she told us we were having a little girl!!!

I don't know if I squeezed Xan's hand first, or if she squeezed mine, but either way we were both very excited. I'll admit there was a tiny part of me being a father that thought having a son would be cool, but for some reason I think I've been wanting a girl all along. I can't really explain it, but it doesn't matter. I got her.

Unfortunately I couldn't get the pictures from the DVD off tonight, but I'll mess around with it this weekend and come up with something to share. There is a lot more detail this time then there was two months ago so you can see a bit more now.

So now Xan knows what to go shopping for so the real strain of holding her back kicks in. But so far we've been good so I doubt we'll have a real problem. From listening to our friends Tim & Ann it sounds like diapers are key anyway. So we'll keep blowing our clothing allowance on those for the time being anyway. (20 diapers a day Tim?? Really?? Taking after Daddy already!!)

Gotta run. I'll have more updates for you all later.

-Kent