Surprise!

Mostly everyone was wrong... Baby Bean is a girl!!!


This is Baby Beans tiny hiney... no mr. winkie... so unless she decides to surprise us, this one is a little miss.



I think we have got Taylor to come around to the idea of a little sister instead of a brother. We are very very excited! We will post the name later.

Tomorrow is the BIG day!

We go in for the boy or girl ultrasound. We have had 3 ultrasounds thus far (6, 12, and 17 weeks) but this is the one we have been waiting for. My appointment isn't until 3:40pm so I am sure the day will dragggggg on, but we are so excited. We are hoping the baby will cooperate, I will be eating something sweet and drinking caffeine before the appointment to try to get the baby dance and show us the goods.

Taylor wants a little brother, and I am sure she will be heartbroken if it isn't a boy. Garrett doesn't really mind either way, but for some reason I have a feeling he too is hoping for a boy. Me on the other hand, what do I want? I want BOTH! I still have this deep feeling of hope for a little boy and girl in there. Since my first ultrasound (and even before) when the doctor said he thought he saw 2 sacs I have had the deep desire for two babies to be there. No other ultrasound has shown that there are two, but there are always those stories of the second baby hiding, right? A girl can hope. If it isn't twins, I am not sure I have a preference of one or the other. We do have Tay, so a little boy would be grand.

My mom said she had a nuetral feeling about the baby, so that it could very well be what I want (twins, boy and girl), but IF she had to choose, she would say girl. Sara (the bff) says boy, as does her husband (Garretts bff). Facebook says I will have 3 girls. Needle and thread says boy. Ancient Chinese calendar says boy.

So many guesses, guess we have less than 24 hours to find out! I can NOT wait.

Adoption Day!!!

Today was the day we went to court to finalize this year+ dream we had, me adopting Taylor. After waiting and waiting and waiting, it was done so fast! I expected more, but nope, less than 5 min and we were finally out of there, me with a "new" daughter. Just filing of papers, copies of stuff, and ordering a new birth certificate was left. She has been mine for a long time, now it is final.



We celebrated the day with McDonalds for a late lunch (her pick), then went and saw Ice Age 3 in the afternoon, and finally our family had us out to dinner to celebrate the "new" addition. They got baby cigars and balloons that said, "it's a girl"... It was really cute.




Things are finally done! No more drama, no more worrying, she is mine, ours, for good. We are blessed. Thank you to everyone that was the support along the way!