It's a GIRL!!!!

On March 29, we visited Dr. Firpo for our monthly appointment but this was no ordinary appointment, we found out the gender of the sweet little soccer player we're growing!  IT'S A GIRL!!!  We had her name chosen a long time ago, Isabella Evan Scarborough.  My grandmother's name was Isabelle and we decided to add the "a" at the end.  Evan is my husband's first name and so we thought it would be cute as girl's middle name too!

It took the sonographer 45 minutes of chasing my sweet little angel around my abdomen just to measure her little brain and the 4 chambers of her itty bitty little heart.  She had the sweetest little mannerisms and would stop every now and then just to suck on her hand and then she bolted again.  This is one active little girl, but just as the sonographer and the radiologist said, it's better to have a super active baby that is this healthy than to have one that is lazy and has lots of health problems.  I'll take the dance parties until 4 am, thank you!  Isabella made it very easy to determine her gender.  When it came time, she just opened her little legs and said, "There, you wanna know so bad?"  Our sweet Izzy has so much spunk and personality and is so incredibly athletic!!  She has super thick and dense little bones and she is very muscular.  Her heartbeat was at 149 and she measured 11 inches long and weighed 12 oz.  Most babies measure about 9 inches and 8.5 oz at this stage, so the radiologist and doctor just kept telling us how healthy this little angel is and how she is super athletic.  This of course, made Scott very very happy!!  I don't care what extracurricular activities Izzy gets involved in, as long as she's happy and Scott gets to help her. 

We took my parents and Scott's mom and her husband out to dinner that night and told them by giving them "Grandma gives the best kisses" outfits in pink and orange, to give away the gender.  Both grandmothers were so thrilled and I thought my dad was about to start crying!!  It is the first grandbaby for my parents (I was too for my grandparents) and this will be Scott's mom's 4th grandbaby.  Everyone is so excited and just so supportive.  We couldn't be any luckier to have such wonderful family!!

This week I am 21 weeks and will be looking forward to week 22 coming up next week!  Scott has training for work on Wednesday so I plan on spending the day at the spa using up the wonderful package that Scott bought me for Christmas.  It is much needed since I'm not getting the best quality sleep lately, due to discomfort. 

I really can not wait to meet our precious little angel!!  She is already to so perfect to us and we know that God really must love us so much to have blessed us with the most perfect little princess.  She is going to complete our lives and she is such a huge piece of the puzzle that forms our new family that is so quickly forming!!