It's a girl!!!

We had our second scan this week and after lots of strange measuring, they said, "yep, definitely a girl". We know that they can be wrong sometimes, but it hasn't stopped me from officially looking at cute little dresses and more girly outfits.

I feel it necessary at this point to make a disclaimer that I am not very fond of pink! The pale and purpley varieties I can stomach, but hot pink or pepto bismal pink especially involving pink lace and bows, I really can't do. I have to say that the baby girl clothing world could really use some further exploration into the realms of green, blue, brown, purple, coral... There's a whole rainbow!

On the bump front, the night before we went for the scan, I was up several times, which is unusual. My nightly max is usually one trip to the loo (I know, probably too much information), but things were very different that particular night. I found out that the baby had shifted around and had her head wedged down in my pelvis, making it rather difficult to get a portrait shot of her. Fortunately she moved later that day, making it a lot more comfortable for mum!

So far the bump has been low and compact. Looking at me straight on, you couldn't tell I was pregnant. But that has begun to change this week... my sides are finally getting rounder and at long last, I think my waist is due to disappear.

Our baby girl is quite active, and in the last week or so I have been feeling a lot more movement. She especially likes to wiggle around when I settle down to read before going to bed. At this point she doesn't wake me up and I have to be sitting still to really notice her movements, but I know that will change soon enough.

One evening last weekend we had a lot of reaction from her when Dan was talking loudly to a friend of ours. She seemed very excited to hear an animated version of her daddy's voice!