Drumroll Please

So today was a great day. We got to see the baby again for the first time in 12 weeks. Boy what a difference it is... it went from a tadpole looking semi-human blob to a little person in just 3 months. It's really quite amazing. You see sonograms on TV or in print all the time, but it's hard to explain how different it is to see your own baby, and I'm sure it's even more difficult to explain for Melanie who has the little one inside her!

In addition to the excitement of just seeing, it was also the key sonogram where we are able to see what the sex is if we wanted... and we decided to find out. So... if we can queue up the drums, the great news is that Melanie and I will be having a bouncing baby girl!

I really didn't have a 'hope' for girl or boy, but I'm very excited now that we know, it's so cool to be able to start talking about the baby as 'her' instead of 'it'.

Here is a brief view of what things looked like today:

Little gal shying away from the camera and sucking her thumb...


And the next two photos are when we decide to name her Mary Lou... she's got legs going all over the place. I think in the second picture she was just about to do a summersault.