You’re a GIRL! I was certainly surprised. I thought for sure that you would be a boy. Dad and I went for the ultrasound yesterday morning at 8:30. The technician, Kaylene, who did the ultrasound, was great and answered all of our questions. She asked us whether or not we wanted to know your gender if she was able to determine it and we both said, “Yes.” I was completely prepared for her to say that you looked like a boy, but instead she said you were looking like a girl. I didn’t believe her at first, but she said that she was 99% certain. The transition was amazing. We immediately started referring to you as “she” and “her”.
As I laid on the bed watching the ultrasound, seeing your heart, hearing it beat, seeing all of the parts of you working so wonderfully, little tears kept spilling out the corner of my eye. We are so thrilled about you.
You were lying face down with your head on my left side and made it very difficult to get a good view of your face. Kaylene finally captured your face and then your profile on the screen. You were so cute and it looked as though you were blowing bubbles. We spent at least a half an hour watching you on the screen and were able to video tape the whole thing. We also have printouts of your face, profile and back. The ultrasound predicted your birth date to be December 7th. Kaylene said that you were probably about 10 inches in length now.
As we left the doctor’s office, I got in my car to go to work, and your dad got in his. He kissed me goodbye before we left and I kept saying, “I can’t believe it’s a girl.” When we talked later, he thought I was upset because you were a girl, but I told him that I couldn’t be more thrilled. I had just thought he might be disappointed. He’s not. He says he can spoil a little girl just as easily as a boy. We are both so excited about you.
I am excited to begin shopping and preparing for you. I haven’t let myself buy anything before now because I wanted to know what “flavor” you were first, and to be honest, it still took time for the idea of you to become real. We haven’t told any of our families yet about you being a girl, but I know they too will be happy. We did send them some of the pictures of your ultrasound though. We scanned and then emailed the pictures, but we didn’t tell the gender. We told them to guess and then we would let them know.
Your Uncle Kevin is getting married. Right now the tentative date is December 18, 1999 but it is still subject to change. I hope that he and Candace will be as happy as Chris and I. Grandpa Kline wishes that Kevin would wait, but that is also the way he felt about Chris and I getting married. I am sure that he will be supportive regardless.
Your Uncle Shane, one of my younger brothers, has now been on his mission in Tucson, Arizona for one year. We took him to the MTC a year ago yesterday. We don’t hear from him much since he doesn’t seem to be much of a letter writer, but I try to send a letter to him once a week. I am usually pretty good about it, but miss a week every once in a while. I set a goal for myself when he left to write to him often, mostly because I would then incorporate the letters into my journal. I haven’t been so diligent at journal writing since I was married.
My youngest brother, Mitch, just graduated from high school this Spring and will be off to Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho this fall. He will probably leave on his mission next May. Unfortunately he and Shane won’t be able to see each other for a very long time. My parents will be at home this Fall by themselves—a first for them in 30 years probably. They depend on Mitch a lot right now, so I am sure that it will be a lonely transition for them. Their house is just emptying and mine is beginning to be filled.
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