Ultrasound Experience

So, we had our first Ultrasound on Thursday 6/26 (one day after '6-months 'till X-mas'.) Everything looks perfect, head, heart, belly, toes, and surprise surprise, female body parts. For the record almost everyone we called confessed they were sure we were gonna have a boy. The technician performing the measurements tells us we're 21 weeks 3 days though our doc holds solid at 20 and 2 and a delivery date of Nov 14th. I'm saying definitely between Halloween and Turkey-Day. Oh and by the way, the Glucose Test, and Quad Screen came back clean.

We are naming her Zoë Elizabeth Dobelstein (after herself.) We're envisioning dark curly hair, and blue to greenish eyes, and yes we're sticking to the Peter Pan theme for the nursery; although now I'm liking the illustrations shown at www.peterpanandwendy.com.

For clothes and blankets and such, the obvious move would be to drown ourselves in pink, but we've never been the most obvious couple. So we're thinking yellows, greens and patterns (pinks mixed with earth tones are nice.) We've begun online window shopping and everything looks cute. I like frogs, Liz likes sock monkeys, our little pickle might like ducks in the end.. who knows.

More Nursery thoughts,
We also may be incorporating illustrations from Terry Pratchett's books like Hat Full of Sky, which actually is the first in a trilogy of the adventures of Tiffany Aching (picture Alice in Wonderland meets the Smurfs in Middle Earth - Ooh Liz's gonna smack me for that one) Here's an illustration of a nursery from a Pratchett kids book, Where's My Cow http://www.jackiemorris.co.uk/images/may07/sam4.jpg

So much to do on that front. We gotta thank Shari for getting us a free crib, and Edy and Jarred for a free rocker/glider. We're good on the changing table (converting an antique chest of draws that's the perfect height) and the only thing for sure is we're gonna hang our wedding kite in the kid's room (the one shown here http://dobieville.com/Wed%20Pics/25.html.)

Okay, so more to come. I'll be posting here my rambling thoughts whenever I find the time. Love to all the friends and family :)
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