Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice

I had my sonogram yesterday and it was so exciting! It looks like we're going to have a girl! I was really wanting to have a girl this time, but I didn't want to focus too much on it because I would have honestly been perfectly happy either way. I want ten fingers and ten toes when it comes right down to it.

Everything was just perfect with the baby. She weighs twelve ounces and I'm measuring at nineteen weeks which is right on target. I was really curious about that since I'm really watching my weight this time. I've gained six pounds total and I'm so proud of myself. I am still following the Weight Watchers POINTS system. The best thing is that I get to eat fifteen extra points per day. Don't get me wrong, I get off track from time to time just like everyone else, but I am keeping an eye on the big picture and how I want to feel at the end of my pregnancy in March.

The fibroid has flattened out and hasn't grown at all. I was almost more concerned with seeing it than the big news about the baby's gender. The sonograper told me that I shouldn't be at all worried about it. She told me that Dr. Watts is really up front about things like that and that she would have told me if I needed to worry. I feel much better, but of course there's still this teeny tiny part of me that worries every now and then.

Lorne installed the scanner so we have lots of pictures from this sonogram:


Not quite sure that we're looking at here which I guess shows us that it's a girl since there's nothing to see.


If you look closely you can see a tiny line in the center of the photo where the sonographer placed a pseudo wee wee.


The face is always so skeletal at this point.


She had her hands up at her cheeks and was even sucking her thumb at one point. I was mesmerized.


I wish that the sonographer had typed "Gig 'Em" on this photo instead. That would have been pretty funny!