It's a . . .

. . . GIRL! We had our sonogram today, and as far as they told us everything looks alright so that it a relief for now. I'm glad to know what we are expecting so we can start thinking of names (we have always waited till after the sono). My plan is to plow through a couple baby name books on our way to Florida. As you can imagine I'm looking forward to it, Drew is not.

As far as wanting a girl or a boy, Andrew didn't have a preference (and hasn't during any pregnancy). I kept saying, that I didn't care what it was as long as it was alive, but I had been thinking of the pros and cons of either. A boy would have been nice because my sister and sister-in-law are both having boys in August, plus then we would have "one of each" (living that is). Still, I thought a girl would be preferable because of the age gap between Lizzie and the potential sibling (not to mention the school situation with another September baby). I also didn't want this child to feel like a replacement for Jacob (or hear anyone suggesting this) and I feel like that will be less likely because it is not the same sex. As for same-sex cousins, Drew's sister had a baby girl last month.

I was going to wait to tell Lizzie the sex later tonight when Andrew could also be present for her reaction (she threw a spectacular tantrum last time), but it didn't quite work out that way. I was visiting with another mother as we lingered on the grass after school, when Lizzie came running up to me and asked "Mommy, does the baby have a penis or a bottom?" I told her it had a vagina. She said "A bagina! That means it's a girl. I'm going to have a sister."