Crunched up in the computer

Over the past few weeks I was beginning to feel "caught up." Crazy, I know. Cleaning tasks were getting done, meals were planned in advance, I was spending free time doing actual creative stuff (making a new blog header was/is on my list...). And then we had the ultrasound and the craziness of telling everyone OMG it's a girl! And packing for our trip to Ohio, and spending the weekend with friends. And Frank staying home from work yesterday because he developed a bad cold. And "wow, where did spring go?" the boys have no summer clothes that fit! And just chaos for the past week and "caught up" went out the window, at least for now.

During the ultrasound, baby did not want to cooperate. She was curled up into a tight little ball. After taking about 60 pictures, measuring lots of things, and listening to the heartbeat this was the last picture the tech took. It is hard to tell, but this is actually baby's butt (two brightest areas are the bones) and on the right side are a series of small lines, which seem to indicate girl. Well, that, and the fact that she said she didn't see one glimpse of male anatomy.

 

This is probably one of the best pictures we got, taken early in the ultrasound when the tech was measuring stuff. And we think she wasn't looking and missed the fact that you can see the same little lines (between the legs on the right side of photo).

These two show just how much she was curled up in there. Head and feet, and then head, hands, and a foot. I told Abby later that day how "the baby was all crunched up in there," and since then Gabe's been telling everyone how "the baby was crunched up in the c'uter" (computer). What a goofball.

She is measuring right on schedule and weighed 15 ounces as of the ultrasound. We haven't started considering names yet, though Zach has suggested Lovely, Sweet, and Sunshine. I'm feeling pretty good in general, just have to take it easy or else get winded going up and down steps and also having more indigestion than before. Par for the course. Hope to post more photos soon, and we are looking forward to Abby coming to visit for the weekend.