sweet baby girl...

First of all I'm sorry this post is so long, but I have so much to say!  And I can’t even begin to describe how our morning went without first reflecting on how great our God is.  I have been full of wonder throughout this whole journey, and at the same time full of worry.  I worry so much for the baby that is inside of me right now, that I’m protecting.  I can’t imagine the worries that come along with motherhood, once this sweet innocent life enters this sometimes not so beautiful world.  Every morning and night, and a lot of times throughout the day I will cover my belly with my hands and pray and plead with God to bless us with a healthy child that will one day live his/her life in light of eternity.  I pray that our sweet little one will live according to God’s will and will keep in mind that this life isn’t about us at all, it’s about bringing glory to our ever-faithful, true, and merciful Heavenly Father.  I constantly have to remind myself of this because it’s something so easily forgotten in this ‘me, me, me’ world, and I must always remember to remind my baby from where our blessings flow.  With that said, this ultrasound made it all so incredibly real to both me and Devin.   Our baby looked like a baby, FINALLY!!! We saw it dancing and kicking and moving those little arms.  And then we got a glimpse of the face.  She zoomed in on the nose and it looked IDENTICAL to Devin’s.  After she checked out everything to make sure the baby was healthy and growing nicely, she called in my Dad, Mom, and Terry.  We waited until they were in there to find out the gender and she said IT’S A GIRL!  Mom and I both started crying…it was the sweetest thing!  Devin’s face lit up so bright because he’s wanted a girl all along.  I was absolutely shocked (a happy shock, of course) because I just KNEW it was a boy.  I had convinced myself that I was having a boy…I thought I had some seriously good intuition, but obviously I was far off.  Ha.  And it was very clearly a little girl!  I can’t believe now I can say I’m having a daughter!  It’s the best feeling in the world!  We can’t wait to spoil her and dress her up and put little bows in her hair. After we got over the initial excitement of knowing what we were having she started pulling up 4D images of our baby girl’s face.  Oh my WORD does our child look like her daddy.  She has Devin’s face completely!  I never knew that you could distinguish features this early…but clearly daddy’s little girl is daddy’s spitting image.  I couldn’t be more thrilled with that because obviously I love the way Devin looks, so she will be one pretty little doll baby.   Now as we wait for our little princess to arrive we have to start acting instead of just dreaming.  Here comes the name game, and nursery decorating, and buying little baby things.  Here comes the FUN PART!  Well, fun for me.  Devin doesn’t exactly enjoy shopping…so hopefully one day my little girl will be mommy’s shopping partner.  But we still get to dream together…that’s the beauty of all of this.  And it’s a great time passer when all we can do is wait for her arrival.  We are still holding on to hope and faith in the dream that we will be blessed with a long happy life with our baby so we can teach her and so she can teach us.  I want us to become childlike with her,  I can’t wait to watch her experience the beauties of this world for the first time and get a glimpse of this life through her sweet, innocent, perfect eyes.