Week 18- It's a GIRL!!

This week has been full of anticipation and anxiety as we were going to finally find out the sex of the baby! We had our big ultrasound appointment on Thursday, July 9th at 1:30! Time was passing so slowly on Thursday! My sister, Kristen, joined us for this appointment too. We made the ultrasound technician wait to tell us if it was a boy or a girl until Kristen got there and then when she finally arrived we found out it was a GIRL! We got to see some really cool 3D pictures of the baby and even got to see her yawning on the screen! SO COOL! Although, our baby girl was not at all shy about showing us she was indeed a girl, she was not cooperating for the technician to get all the pictures they needed. The baby would not flip over so that she could get pictures of her heart. The ultrasound technician had me rolling from side to side, pushing on my stomach and eventually doing jumping jacks and hopping up and down! I had to do all these things with my shirt up because I had lotion on my belly and I had a paper blanket stuffed into my pants! It was quite entertaining to Kristen and Chris, I am sure! The baby won the fight and now I have to go back in two weeks for another ultrasound to hopefully complete the pictures! I can't say I am sad that I have to have another ultrasound!

Other News this week: A couple days after my ultrasound, I discoverd yet another rash on my stomach! I think I actually had a reaction to the lotion they used during the ultrasound! The rash was only where they do the ultrasound. AHH! Luckily, this rash was not as bad as the Cocoa Butter rash and it went away quickly! That's about all the crazy stuff this week, other than cravings! This week's craving was Smores Poptarts! Yeah baby! I look forward to this upcoming week, as my pregnant cousin, Amanda (due October 31st with a girl too) and her family are coming in town for the week and staying with us! I talked Amanda in to doing prenatal yoga with me. Let's see how attempt #2 of Yoga goes for me!