we just found out on thursday that baby in the belly is a girl. my kids at school still don't know, but everybody else does. my pulse kind of quickens when i think of how to devise a way to inform a room full of second graders that i'm preg. eight year olds are more 'with it' than you might presume, but they still have this fantastic innocence and sense of wonder. i don't want to rock any worlds, here.
she's a girl! matt took one look at the ultrasound and announced it immediately. i don't think that the lab tech liked him very much after that. she took her time, not speaking for an eternity. i couldn't tell if baby was uncooperative or what, the ultrasound moving in and out of clear view with the wand that she kept pressing painfully on my abdomen. finally the announcement, but we already knew by that point!
matt just hopes that she'll like vegemite and call me mum. we won't take her to australia for at least a year or two, but the best of australia will come to us - his parents and sister in july. that'll be many extra hands to give us a break. i love my little half-aussie girl so much, we listen to her heartbeat before we fall asleep every night.