IT'S A GIRL!!!!!

So I am finally updating.. although I know everyone probably knows by now! But yes, my instincts were correct and Karris Grace will be joining us this summer! She was a stubborn one at Prenatal Peek, but after getting up to walk around and to get her moving - the tech confirmed that she is indeed a girl! After 5 minutes she said she was "pretty sure" she knew what it was, but that she wanted to get a few more angles. Of course baby girl had her little legs crossed. But after about 15 minutes she was kicking her arms and legs all over the place. My Dr. will do his gender determination at 20 weeks so - hopefully we will get confirmation then! :) Here is Daniel and I after we found out!

That night we had some friends over and first got everyone to write their name and place it on either a boy or girl side just to see for fun what the percentage was! :) 8 people thought boy and 7 thought girl. After that, I mixed up the names and picked one at a time. When your name was called you went and opened a card that was hanging on the wall - and in one of the cards, the sex of Baby K was revealed! It actually worked PERFECT - I was so scared that it would be the first card chosen, but it was the next to the last! Our friend David picked the "one"!

It was such a fun time. Like we have said all along, we have had no preference as to what baby K was - although as Daniel will confirm, since about week 8 I have thought that she was a she. I just had an instinct that it was! Maybe it was because my mom thought it was a girl so much and her motherly instinct became mine. Karris has a greatly expanding wardrobe already. Daniel has learned something new in the last week - and that is that babies are in new clothes every 3 months the first year of life. He understands now why I have had to buy a few cute outfits. I LOVE looking at girl clothes - they are all so sweet and precious! And, it makes it a little easier that pink is my favorite color. Daniel is very excited about our sweet little girl too. We talk about all the time how we can't wait until she is here already.
On another hand, we have some other exciting news! We are set to close on our house April 1. It is currently under construction but should be finished within a week or so! Here is a picture from the front - they just did the landscaping over the weekend, I love the palm trees!

We went to our friends Christina and Brian's wedding shower this weekend in Columbia. We had a great time getting to see the "Cola" crew. All of our friends with babies live in Columbia pretty much, so I was telling my friend Molly earlier that it's a good thing we spend half of our weekends in the fall in Columbia! Or either Christina and Brian will hopefully join the baby madness sometime soon so Karris will have a playmate down this way! Keep us in your prayers... things went well today at my 16 week appointment. Here is a pic from that - Dr. S said baby (they don't do my gender screening like I mentioned til 20 weeks) is all curled up in fetal position. He even said that they "had a great profile." When we were at prenatal peek last week the ultrasound tech commented on how "she had such full lips." And that was even just in 2D not even the 4D! Continue to keep the 3 of us in your prayers and my school in your prayers! I want to graduate in May and not August and be able to relax this summer!