Sinking in...
I think I am still in shock that it's a girl.
For everyone who couldn't see anything...I made a labeled picture.

The ultrasound tech said that she is fairly certain it's a girl since we saw 3 lines and no sign of a penis anywhere.
Obviously in the little circle on the ultrasound photo there is not a penis poking up!
Since we only got a glimpse of it though, we are going back the day after Thanksgiving. Hopefully the baby will be in a different position and we can get a better look at all of her parts, especially in between the legs!
I'm so excited about having two little girls! They will have so much fun together. Rosie will love having someone to argue with, and play dress up and dolls with, and when she gets older she will have a sister close in age to go through life with.
We do have a couple names in mind, but I don't think I want to share them anytime soon.
Last time we made the mistake of sharing Rosie's name with family because we were excited.
MIL insisted that Rose Mae sounded like a stripper's name. She also said that Rosie would hate us because she was named after Rosie O'Donnell and all the kids would make fun of her.
Yeah, sure.
Actually she's named after my great-grandma who I loved dearly. And Tyler chose the name!
Then once Rosie was born they all came to the hospital and wouldn't leave...they stayed for the entire day after Rosie was born and never let me hold her or gave me a second alone to nurse her or get up out of bed and pee...It was horrible. I had lost a lot of blood and felt too weak to insist that they leave or to insist they give me my baby back, and Tyler kept thinking if he ignored them and fell asleep they would take a hint and leave. But really...they don't take hints.
And of course while they were there they kept reminding us since we had yet to sign the birth certificate it wasn't too late to pick a better name.
Seriously, who has the balls to say that??
It's not as if we were naming her Orangello or something.
I can't even describe how rude and inconsiderate it felt.
So, based on that, we are terrified to share any name choices.
MIL asks about it in a sing-song voice all the time. She already tried to grill Rosie on the baby's name more than once. Tyler's Granny has already made numerous suggestions. She thinks we should name the baby Katie Jordan, and she continues to suggest it over and over.
Um...no thanks.
I'm so thankful that my family doesn't care. If we name the baby the strangest name in the world they would still go along with it.
We can't seem to find any name we love that goes well with our last name. Amos doesn't sound good with ANYTHING! There is either an A sound or an S sound messing up the flow of the name. So I have given up. I'm not going to worry about the first and last name sounding good together...it's ruining the names Tyler and I want to use! And my daughter will probably get married one day and change her last name anyway...
I will give you a hint and tell you that her initials *might* be AMA.
Maybe.
Mhm.
Tyler wants to name her after his Grandma, but her first name is Frieda and...I just can't do it. It doesn't feel like this baby's name. So we are using her middle name for the baby's middle name. It's not a name I would have ever considered, but I do love his grandma and I like the idea that Rosie is named for my great-grandma and this baby would carry the memory of Tyler's Grandma.(His Grandma is not the same person as his Granny, just to be clear...)
Rosie loves it when we use the iMac to take pictures of my belly. The Mac photos are a reflection just like when you take a picture in the bathroom mirror.
She wanted to take pictures yesterday. So I guess these are 18 week pictures!

















