It's a GIRL!!!

Yes, today we found out that we are having a little girl - Tenley Marie Vermeulen. Jared is hoping that she has out of control frizzy curls like I did when I was a child - haha. I have to admit that would be cute to look at. We had the ultrasound at 10:15 this morning. The nurse said it was a girl and I asked 3 times how sure she was: I figure with a boy you see something so that's harder to mess up, but with a girl - what if it's just small or hiding....she said she was 95% sure so we'll go with that. I must admit I am a little nervous about having a girl because of ... "girl things" and what people will buy us! haha. Don't get me wrong I am thankful for anything that people think to give us and any help we receive, but we have a particular taste and I don't think it is in line with most people's vision of a "little girl".

1. We hate dolls! They freak both of us out and we will not be giving them to our daughter. Now if she falls in love with one or something I am sure that we would make exceptions, but we will not be introducing them to her. I never had dolls - just stuffed animals and that was great!

2. We really don't like pastel colors or pastel pink, I do love me some HOT Pink though :)

3. We do NOT like self-proclaiming shirts, one's that say "Adorable, Precious, Everyone Loves Me, I'm A Princess" - these are fine for other kids but not ours - we strongly do not like these!

4. I was more a tomboy growing up and I plan on introducing our daughter to cars, snowmobiles, sports, playing outside, building forts, and all of those things as well.

Mind you whatever she shows interest in we will definitely support, but that is further down the line, for now I'm just saying I am worried "little girl" stuff is going to overwhelm me...but I'm sure I will learn how to deal with it.

I think it is strange that as soon as we knew we were having a girl Jared instantly felt more protective and I felt more like he was the MAN. haha. One of the first things I said to him was "Now you really have to take care of your Girls!" He was already thinking that and one of the firs things he said was "Now I have to get ready to beat up all the little boys, good thing I have muscles!" haha. I thought it was funny that we both had the same initial thought.

Anyways, we couldn't be more excited. I took a poll to see what people thought we were having the final count was: 21 Boy, 13 Girl. I finally made myself make a guess and decided I thought deep down it was a Girl. Glad to see our parenting instincts are right so far as we both said it would be a girl.

No ultrasound pics...sorry - they weren't very clear.

20 Weeks - just starting to show, I can still wear my normal jeans.