It's a...................

The verdict is in!

In January, we will be the proud parents of a sweet little girl!

We are so excited. SO EXCITED. We were pretty surprised, though. You should have seen Scott's face when the technician told us. It was sheer shock. We had both really been thinking it would be a boy. I've had a couple of dreams in which it was a boy - one was a dream of the sonogram, and one was a dream of the birth. Scott has really felt that it was a boy. I just had a hunch.

Last night, though, I had another dream about the sonogram......but this time, it was a girl. I had never had any inkling that it was a girl until that dream. Never. And then? It's a girl.

So yes, we're thrilled, but still surprised.

I would have been thrilled either way. Had the technician told me that it was a boy, I really believe I would have been equally delighted. The thing is, I'm just happy to know. I'm happy to be able to say "she" for sure....to be able to look for pink things and know it's appropriate....to anticipate hair in pigtails and Daddy's little girl.... I'm really just glad to know for sure.

And to be able to see her again.... There is nothing in the world like seeing that little face and those little arms and feet and heart......that little heart beating a mile a minute inside her little chest, inside this growing bulge of mine.....

I can't get enough of it.

It's just such a miracle, and getting to be a part of it is indescribable.