In My Daughter's Eyes

Hello Blog Readers! 

What an exciting past 24 hours we Sharpstene's have had!!  We had our sonogram yesterday and found out that we are having a LITTLE GIRL!!!  Don't get me wrong, I would have been thrilled to find out we were going to have a son, but I, we, have thought all along that it was a girl and we could not be more excited about her!  Let's take a look at the goods :)

There is NO pee-pee there!!! 

She didn't cooperate at first, the lady couldn't get a good view.  At the end of the apt however, she gave us a nice clear shot of her girl parts!  Everything else looked great!  Her head, heart, spine, brain, arms, legs, face...everything looks perfect!  It is the most amazing thing to watch a screen and see your baby moving around inside of you.  I was just in awe.  It's so funny because I can't feel any of those movements yet but she sure is active!  Oh, and by the way, her name is Sophia Elizabeth Sharpstene.  Elizabeth is my middle name, well it was, and Sophia is just a name that we both love.  We will call her Sophie :)  As you can tell by the pink letters I used for her name, she will be the girliest girl EVER...at least until she tells me she hates pink, which hopefully will not happen.  My Mom, who could not be happier about a Granddaughter, and I went out to Target last night.  We didn't go crazy or anything, but between the 2 of us, we did buy this:

 Too cute!  And, not ALL pink! 

Three newborn outfits, two 3-Month outfits, and one 0-9 month sleep bag that says "Daddy's Girl" on it...sniff sniff.  Also, I have to include this picture.  This is something I bought when I was 6 or 7 weeks pregnant.  Like I said, we both had a feeling from the beginning we were having a girl....

This, ladies and gentlemen, is Sophie's FIRST tutu :)

I plan on having her 6 month photo's taken wearing this tutu.  Gah, I just love it!  You can't tell, but it's actually yellow and white.  The only pink is the flowers.  I am ready to start looking at bedding soon I think.  I had originally wanted to do neutral, but A- I'm not finding much I like and B- Again, I love pink and all things girly.  So we will see.  There will not be pink walls, strollers, car seats, highchairs, or any of that.  That stuff is too dang expensive to do all pink when the next one may be a little boy. 

For those of you interested, here is what I am looking like these days.  This was taken last night.

This Sunday will mark 18 weeks...possibly the half way point.  All I can say is that this pregnancy is flying by.  I need it to slow down a little.  However, I have been very blessed to have had a great pregnancy so far.  I can only hope I am following in the footsteps of my mother, who had easy pregnancy's and FAST natural deliveries with all 3 of us.  Alrighty folks, I guess that about wraps up this blog.  OH, the title of this post is a song by Martina McBride.  If you've never heard it, I encourage you to listen to it.  It makes me want to cry.  ALSO, if anyone reads this thing, will you please leave a comment so I know I'm not typing this to myself.  Okay, thanks!