What a day!!!!

Wow, today was such a memorable day!!!

We got up and headed to our normal Saturday morning swimming lessons (Noah is in the last 2 year old class and now we still have to be in the room but not in the pool. The next lesson we don't even have to be in the room -- sniffle!) Then we headed up to Reading and dropped Noah off at my mom's in a hurry so we could get to our ultrasound which was in Reading as well. It was at a place called Baby Preview Co. It is a private ultrasound company that specializes in Gender and 3d/4d Ultrasounds. It was a really cool place and it was sooo different than the medical ultrasound. The lady led us into a private room set up like a living room with leather chairs and a leather chaise lounge for the mom-to-be. The one entire wall was set up as a screen and there was a smaller tv set up to view next to the dad's seat as well. There were candles burning and soothing music!

Once we began it was so neat because we hadn't had an ultrasound this far along with Noah and this baby was so much more developed... you could see every rib and toes in detail and what not. When the nurse went to look for gender the legs were too close together! Are you kidding?! But we looked 4 or 5 times and each time the baby opened its legs a little wider until we were finally able to see and it was pretty clear to all of us that it was a little girl!!!!

The company reccomends for the best 3d ultrasounds to wait until between 26 and 30 weeks but we were at almost 25 and so the baby was still lacking some of the extra fat cells so it looks a little skeleton-ish, but we still enjoyed it. We bought the video and at one point she even wriggles her body around and looks right at us as if she's saying hi. She sticks out her tongue and yawns and we have it all on video. It's really great!!!!

Here are some of the pictures:


this is my favorite profile pic in 3d, her arm is up by her face.


This is the girl pic and then the exact pic from Noah's ultrasound below:
and her profile.

So, we left the ultrasound place and went to buy her some things, just like we did for Noah. It was so much fun to pick out some girlie things. We grabbed lunch and headed back to my mom's. Noah hadn't napped and was on overdrive but we managed pretty well.

We then had a young adults event at church in MD so we headed south from my parents and Noah slept on the way. When we got there a bunch of folks were there and we had a good time, but Noah was beyond himself. We chalked it up to a poor nap and too much driving. When we left he kept saying that he had an "owie" in his mouth and wanted a band-aid in his mouth. We just kept trying to relax him until we got home when he vomited every morsel of what he had eaten that day all over himself and the car. Luckily we were right by my office and we ran him inside and cleaned him up and tried to clean up the car. Then we had to rush home for a late meeting with our contractor at 8pm! Ugh!!!

So, here we are after a run around day full of all sorts of emotions and insanity!!!! But we are really excited about our new addition and we finally feel like we can plan a little bit better. We have some time next weekend to work on the room and order some things for this little one.

Thanks already for all of your wonderful warm wishes!!!!!