Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice?

I hope that's what little girls are made of, because that's what we're having!! We went to the ultrasound this morning and everything looks healthy and we're right on track. I was so anxious that they wouldn't be able to tell the gender, because I'm just the kind of person who has to know. Anyways, when the nurse started doing the ultasound, the baby was curled up so tightly in a little ball, it really was hard to see anything. Even the nurse kept says, "this baby is just curled up so tightly, it's hard to get a good look." But the nurse just kept working with it, and soon we had everything we needed. :)

I think this one is my favorite, #1 because you can see how tightly she's curled up in there, and #2 it really is the one that's easiest to tell that it's actually a baby we're looking at. Sometimes in ultrasound pictures it's hard to tell.

Here's the shot that determined she was a girl. Ya, I don't really see it either. But I suppose it's the lack of something to see that tips you off it's a girl, right? ;)

This one is a little tougher for me to see right off, but it's her face, almost like she's looking up at you.

And this one is her little foot, you can see it if you look right underneath the word foot. Heel to the right, toes to the left.

So that's our little girl. We're really excited! On my side she'll be the second granddaughter with two brothers and a boy cousin, and on Aaron's the third, with two brothers and 7 boy cousins. Needless to say, everyone was pretty excited for her to be a girl. Also, Aaron's cousin Whitney, who is my very good friend, is having a little girl about 4 weeks ahead of me. So we are excited that they can be little buddies.

Of course, now I get to go into planning mode. Which makes me happy, because I can feel like I'm getting ready for her to come instead of just sitting around wondering if it's going to be a girl or a boy. My first big plans are to make her some crib bedding and room decor. These are the colors I have in mind:

Navy blue, with light yellow, and white daisies. If you haven't heard by now, I'm not big into pink, and am trying to avoid it at all cost. I think the colors above will be feminine, but not too frilly. I already know I can make a bed skirt, and I don't think it will be too hard to make the bumper pads either. But what I think will be a little more difficult is finding the fabric I want. The picture above is of an outfit I found at Target.

Also of course it's time to start getting serious about naming this kid. I mean we only have 20 week left until she's here. haha! The name currently holding the spot at the top of the list is Adelia Maxine Swan. Adi for short. But only as short as Linc is short for Lincoln, not an all the time short. If that makes any sense. She'll get called Adi, but not 100% of the time, just like we call Lincoln Linc. Other names on our list right now are Hadley, Nora, Avi, and a few "different" ones that I really like that there is no way Aaron will ever like. :) We are pretty sure that we want the middle name to be Maxine, after my Grandma Lemmon, but depending on the first name we choose, that is subject to change without notice. ;)