baby girl!

this was a big weekend for us. saturday we had an appt for a 3D ultrasound and were able to find out that we're having a baby girl! seemed all the votes were on boy, but we both woke up that morning each having girl dreams during the night.


her name is going to be anabelle reece (just 1 'n' in anabelle). i love seeing her name written out and being able to talk to her and about her now that we know who she is. the ultrasound was amazing. their system projects it up on the wall for you to see so our 6 oz. tiny baby was almost 2 feet tall with her little heart just beating away. they printed lots of pictures for us so i wanted to share a couple. chris says i need to include a disclaimer because he thinks the 3D pictures are pretty creepy looking. i think they're fascinating!



we're going to go again in late april so chris can see how she's doing before he leaves. she should look a little more plump by then.



i was able to talk chris into a quick trip to old navy right after so we could each pick out an outfit for anabelle. well, we ended up with one extra since the entire store was 30% off. oh, this could be trouble.

i had a quick check up with my midwife on thursday. she says everything seems to be moving along just right.

sunday, i surprised chris with massages. we'd talked about getting them before deployment but i figured i'd go ahead and schedule them before the weeks got away from us. it was a great relaxing treat.



dear anabelle - it was so amazing to see you! keep growing and i'll try to keep making good food choices for us . . that frozen yogurt last night was pretty tasty though, wasn't it?!


here is a quick video from our visit if you'd like to see. (disclaimer from chris: baby is pretty boney & looks sort of creepy. message from susan: she's amazing!)