and it's a...

baby!

haha, we new that.

so as i mentioned, at my 21 week ultrasound, the baby was curled up and so i had another ultrasound at 23 weeks to get another look.

we were looking to get one of those iconic profile shots of the face, you know, the nose and lips and such.

well for the first half an hour the baby had both of its hands on its face.

then it switched to sucking a thumb.

so no profile shot was had.

instead we have this face front image, which i know, is kind of haunting, bordering on scary...

but i think it's cute.

i have to.

:)

see the chin, mouth, nose, and eye socket?

apparently they're all where they're supposed to be.

thank goodness!  everything is looking good and as of last friday the baby was 1 pound 4 ounces.

i won't share how much i was;)

big sighs of relief.

so as for the "what is it" question...

girl.

it's a girl!

poor m is terribly outnumbered, but i think he likes it that way.

so i went directly from my appointment to joann fabrics to start the nursery crafting.

i'm not much of a girly girl.  i'm frankly a bit freaked at the potential amount of pink that may soon surround me and might rebel by dressing my baby in blue:)  i'm going to do my darndest to make this little one more interested in dirt and toads than princesses and barbies.

but... i did want to give some subtle feminine touches to her room.

i kind of thought she may not love the nautical theme i would have gone with had she been male.

and i also want the room to flow with the rest of our house, not be too cutesy or themey, because really?  i think i'll care more about the appearance of her room than she will, for the first bit anyway.

here are the fabrics i bought and the room color choices i'm thinking.

picking a page out of my handy martha stewart sewing encyclopedia, i've started on the nursery's drapes.

basically the embroidered off-white pattern on one side and the robin's egg floral on the other.

i'm going to sew on buttons and ribbon hoops so that the panel can be pulled up, to reveal the opposite side's fabric... and the sun:)

i have a small swatch of coral (not pink!) fabric that i'm going to sew an accent pillow out of.

other plans for the room?

- we already have m's favorite van gogh print framed, a painting of vincent's bedroom.

- i'm converting an old desk to the changing table and am sewing a skirt to hide the drawers.

- i'll have a painted rocking chair in the room (haha maybe not painted since i can't do it right now and can't imagine m doing it either!), that will have an accent pillow on it.

- i have a gilded frame that i'll hang with a ribbon and embroider the little one's first initial in.

- hopefully chair railing and shelving!

- more things, probably:)

so there you have it.

it's a baby. girl.

:)