Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Still a Girl!

At 22 weeks we were able to get our regularly scheduled (free) ultrasound.
I wasn't quite as impressed with the technician or the quality of the ultrasound, so I was thankful we went to a private ultrasound place to find out the gender at 16 weeks.
As you can see in the pictures below, our baby girl has a hand with all five digits.....and a head.

That's about all we could see. (Thank goodness it was free!)

If it would have been our first ultrasound I don't know how much I would have trusted the technician identifying the baby as a girl.
I could blame it all on the technician, but frankly our little girl wasn't much in the mood for being bothered. She started kicking madly as soon as the ultrasound started like she was telling us to keep out. (Has it started all ready and she isn't even here yet?!)
Then she kept completely disappearing into her dark oblivion....and had her head buried dip into the side of my hip.




I can tell she is going to be a handful all ready----but we are all anxious for her to be here all ready.---Even Bubba is coming around. He seemed to be very concerned about having to "take on" caring for another sibling. I didn't know his job of being a big brother was so tough! :)
Here are a list of Baby Girl Hogue's favorite snacks this past week:
  • Captain Crunch cereal with Crunchberries
  • Raspberry Lemonade (from the Cheesecake Factory)
  • Chocolate Donettes (from the vending machine at work)
  • Dr Pepper (from the fountain only)
  • Chocolate Chip Waffles with strawberries and syrup

2 comments:

The Queen Bee said...

Aren't you so relieved when they tell you it's still a girl. Every time I go I'm relieved when they tell me I'm really pregnant!

kristi said...

I'm still excited for you. And I was NEVER really convinced of the gender of my girls until they were born. (I'd heard too many stories . . .) I think maybe your daughter just likes "pinkish" foods already. Even Dr. Pepper is slightly reddish - from the prune juice.

That Stop Wasn't On My Itinerary....

So the Hogue's made it to Florida for our first official family vacation. It was Sawyer's first plane ride....and Simon's first plane ride that he can remember. We were excited....the boys were stoked. We had everything we needed! But it seems that Sawyer packed something with him that wasn't on our checklist: a big case of pneumonia. Yes, the little fella made it almost one whole day in Florida before he started heading downhill fast. Our 2nd day in Orlando we were in the Urgent Care south of Cocoa Beach. (By the way, to see a doctor more quickly, it helps if you vomit all over the waiting room in front of the receptionist. Little tip for ya) After chest x-rays they advised us to head to the ER in Melbourne, where they eventually admitted him to the hospital. So, we had 3 night deluxe accommadations at the Holmes Regional Medical Center. The little whipper snapper was a trooper though! The nurses loved him, thankfully, and made us all feel right at home. We were going to send postcards out with pictures of the hospital since we spent 40% of our trip there...but they didn't have any. Imagine that!Hmmm.....maybe its something they should consider.

Florida 2008