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Well, today was the big day! We had our 20 week OB appointment....and.....IT'S A GIRL!!!

Matt and I are both very, very excited! We were both convinced that our baby was going to be a boy, so when the radiologist told us it was a girl we were a little surprised, but completely overjoyed!

Our little girl is a very active little thing...so much so that the radiologist kept giggling! Everytime she'd get the right position for a measurement or picture, the baby would wiggle and move! She told us we had a little wiggle-worm in there! We of course thought it was very cute Ü She tried a few times to look at the genitals, but the baby wasn't being very cooperative...she kept moving around, but wouldn't open her legs to get a good enough look. So, she'd say "well, we'll come back to that in a little bit!" Then, when there were no more measurements left to take, she finally had me move onto my side to see if we could get the baby to move around a little so she could get a good picture of the genital area. Sure enough, after much poking and prodding and wiggling, we had our picture! Matt said "Oh, I think I just saw something down there!" The radiologist said that what he saw was surely something down there, but that it was a hand Ü Good thing she knew what she was looking for! Then she showed us the "external female genitals"...3 little white lines that, even though we had no idea what they were, couldn't have meant more to us if they had spelled GIRL right there on the screen!

So many emotions ran through me at that moment. I kept thinking about Matt, and how I hoped she'd be a daddy's girl. As the day has gone on, I've been daydreaming about all the things that a little girl (and big girl) will bring. While we were eating lunch I started getting teary eyed and Matt asked what I was thinking about...well, I was thinking about how excited I was that I was going to have a daughter to pick out a wedding dress with. Of course his reaction was "Oh my gosh, that's a little ways off don't you think?!" Then a few seconds later, he was getting teary eyed too...no doubt thinking about having that same little girl on his arm while walking her down the aisle Ü Then we talked about pig-tails and dresses and prom and boyfriends....so much to look forward to, and so much to worry about!

Even though we know these things are what seem like light-years away, we also know how fast the time flies by. Before we know it, we're going to have a beautiful baby girl Ü And then she'll have all of her own firsts...smiles, steps, words... She'll have many triumphs, and I'm sure a few heartaches. And then all of a sudden, it will be her wedding day. And her dad and I will look back on this day and remember how we laughed at how far away all of it seemed...and we'll tell her how special this day was. The day we found out that we were having our first little girl Ü