it's a...

about six weeks ago our doctor slipped us a taped up business card that would reveal the sex of our baby to us. we held onto it for about ten days before we decided it was time to see what the newest member of family would be. michael finally opened it up around midnight under a starry sky in the middle of the iowa prairie. we had just celebrated a day of love with some very close friends of ours and couldn't think of a more memorable time to do it. at that moment we discovered we were having a...

fast forward to this past monday. we went in for our twenty week structural ultrasound and the doctor pointed to a little dot on the screen.

doctor: "ahh...do you see that?" 

me: "yeah. ummm, it looks like a grey dot. it's a boy!"

doctor: "haha. no. those are labia."

the rest of the appointment sounded a bit like charlie brown's teacher, all muffled talking, all we could think about was the fact that our boy had turned into a girl!! we had spent the past six weeks picking names, clearing all thoughts of having a girl out of our head, and consoling elodie who just kept saying, "i want a baby sister." when all of a sudden, that was a reality. 

four days into this new discovery, we are very excited and have shifted back into planning for another sweet little lady. and if it ends up being a boy for some odd reason, i'll thank my lucky stars. all that matters is that she/he is healthy!!