it's a GIRL... for sure this time!!!

I had another ultrasound yesterday and this time we are 100% sure it is a girl this time! I'm very excited to be able to put all of Grace's clothes on our new baby. I started sorting, washing and ironing last night and it's so wonderful and sentimental, baby's closet is filling up already! Grace found her Snow White princess costume from when she was a baby and I told her we had gotten it out for her little sister to wear. Grace ran to her dress up clothes and put on her Snow White costume and began twirling and dancing around the house with "her baby sister," err, her baby's sister's costume actually! She is so excited and will make such a wonderful Big Sister!

There was one area of concern from the ultrasound. Baby has a unilateral choroid plexus cyst. It is a cyst on her brain that will most likely turn out to be nothing and usually goes away during the third trimester. It is however a "soft marker" for genetic issues such as down syndrome. My doctor stressed that this is unlikely (especially since no other markers were found) and we will continue to monitor it through ultrasound. I also had blood drawn for the "triple screen" test that will give more insight on the probability of a genetic disorder. I should receive those results in about a week and a half. The only way to get an absolute answer before she is born would be an amniocentesis, which I will not do because it would put her at risk. We will be praying for the health of our new baby girl!

Here are some new pictures of our new Baby Girl! We are working on a name and hope to be settled soon!

she's a cutie!

sucking her thumb... just like her big sister did!