In an attempt to make up for last week's missed photo I decided not to stick to my photo every 2 weeks schedule and instead have Greg snap a photo today. Here I am out back in a new maternity outfit right before we headed off to church. My wardrobe is seriously limited these days but new clothes always make you feel good. My belly doesn't look very big from this angle which is probably why my mom was clamoring for a profile shot this week in the comments. I think I usually turn a little more to the side but Greg can never remember what he does from week to week and he isn't much for shooting multiple shots. Here you go Mom! I made sure to post a profile picture this week just for you. Turned out to be a pretty big difference actually. 
I always take one of these profile shots each time but we do them inside and the lighting is so bad that I usually don't like to post them. We just don't have very good lighting in this house compared to our awesome lighting in the Bronx. Anyway, I think it is pretty obvious that I am pregnant but when I mention it to professors at work they act so very surprised. I can't image what they thought was growing in my midsection. A giant tumor perhaps?So on to the big news. Last Wednesday Greg and I decided to go ahead with the routine 20 week anatomy scan that is offered to pregnant woman AND we decided that if the baby wanted to cooperate we would find out the sex. Well........
here she is! It was very cool to see her again on screen jumping around inside of me. From what they can tell she is developing normally and everything is looking good. Praise God for that. 
This photo was Greg's favorite that they sent us home with. Those are 2 little feet. She also had her little hands balled up in cute little fists. So amazing. We can't wait to meet her face to face. Now that we know the sex we are gearing up to start planning again. When we made the decision to find out several weeks ago we pretty much stopped planning stuff like names and the nursery because it seemed like too much effort to pick two options for everything. Now we have to revisit those topics.One thing we did this weekend was sort clothes. We live near a Goodwill Outlet store. They sell clothes in huge bins by the pound. So when Greg goes to look at records I have been tagging along to look for baby clothes. I have found so many nice things that are in terrific shape, many of which have obviously never been used but up till now I have been buying boy and girl stuff. They clothes are only 1.69 a pound and you can get a lot of tiny baby clothes in one pound. I figured even if I had to toss half of them I would only be out a few dollars. Well today we went through the bags of clothes I had purchased, washed and stored. We sorted them by boy or girl and then by size.
Turns out most of what I had found was girl stuff anyway so there was only a small pile of distinctly "boy" stuff. From that pile I am going to put my crafting skills to the test to modify some things and make them more girly and then a few items I will redonate. Overall we have a nice amount of clothes to get us started.
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