Your daddy said he knew all a long, but I had the gut feeling you were a little boy. Sorry, sweet pea! We were so excited for your appointment. Your daddy and I both had strep throat last week and were worried we wouldn't make it to the doctor, but both felt almost normal...and were no longer contagious!
You were healthy and passed all the "tests"...your bones are developing, you have a four-chambered heart, blood is flowing throughout your body, you have all parts of your brain, you have kidneys, etc. etc....you were beautiful, and we are already wrapped around your little finger. You are weighing in at a whopping 8 ounces. Your heartbeat is holding strong at 148 bpm.
It was precious...you were sleepy and trying to relax. You had both your hands up on your face. You didn't want to move around for us. The ultrasound tech jabbed my tummy around with her ultrasound wand and you kind of fluttered around and did not seem amused....you were waving your hands in front of you, as if you were saying "Okay, okay, stop it!" Because of the way you were laying, we could not get a good profile picture of you, so as the tech tried to turn you again, one last time, you shot up the THUMBS UP like "Leave me alone, everything is good in here"...I know, sweet girl, so sorry we bothered you! Absolutely adorable though!
So here's the deal, we had decided we wanted to tell our family in person first, not just call them up or let them read it on Facebook...so the night before, we got off work, ordered take-out Chinese, and baked cupcakes!
Since we had roughly 10 family members we would be telling, 12 of them we wrote "BOY" on and decorated, the other 12 we wrote "GIRL" on and decorated. They were precious!
We were going to put them in little Chinese take-out boxes, we had cards written out to each family member, from you, signed with your name (which we will get to later) and I thought this cute little crafty project would be perfect. Well, my crafty ideas NEVER turn out well.It happened to get up 98 degrees yesterday, so even though we had the cupcakes packed in a cooler, with ice, the icing still melted off of some of them....actually most of them.
We went to Mike's family first, they got the actual cupcakes - we made them eat "BOY" cupcakes though so we could reuse the GIRL ones...classy, I know. But then, on the way back to Charlotte, those melted, so we ended up going to Target, buying a little circle cake writing, "It's a GIRL" on it and taking it to my parents and grandparents.
I would have been so disappointed, if I wasn't so excited about you!!
We DID buy you a few outfits at Target - I really just could not resist!
We are now on vacation this week so we have a whole week devoted to you - we are buying your crib tomorrow hopefully and decorating some of you nursery. We are registering for you, hopefully looking at day cares (we need to find one right by where we work, since your daddy and I work a mile from each other), and a few other things - we are so excited.
And, after much debate and going back and forth between a few times, we have decided on your name.....
AVERY MACKENZIE LANE!!!! We hope you like it, because we think it is beautiful! Ever since I did after school tutor program at Valle Cruis Elementary and met a little girl named Avery, I knew I wanted to name my child Avery if she was a girl. But we were leaning away from it, because three of four people I know have recently named their daughters, and one son, Avery. However, they aren't close friends we see everyday, so your daddy finally talked me into it. Your daddy picked your middle name. He likes those "Tomboy" names, as he called it.
We love you to the moon and back, sweet girl!!! You have so many people who already love you and are ready to spoil you!!! We cannot wait to meet you!
P.S. You are so lucky to have your daddy. He is spoiling us both rotten!!! It's melting my heart!
Good name! haha. Congratulations!
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