Worse than a kid on Christmas Eve!!!

Well, I was advised to drink caffeine and eat some sugar before our ultra sound so that the baby wouldn't be curled up sleeping. So, I did just that...this led to having to pee a million times :) and being really excited on top of already being excited! We got to the doctor and they called me almost immediately...what the heck? Chris wasn't even there yet!!! They weighed me and I expressed my concern over feeling like a heifer lately and the nurse assured me I was gaining weight at an ok rate and that while the dr. is nice, he isn't THAT nice and he would definitely tell me if I were porking out too quickly! :) So that is good. We get into the ultra sound room and Chris arrives and then the tech comes in and tells us that the Dr. just had to leave to delivery a baby!!!!! So she could do the U/S and tell us the sex, but that she couldn't tell us anything else because she isn't a doctor and we would have to come back later when he was back. :( So she spread the gel on my belly and went to town. We saw little Lima Bean and it was waving and punching and putting its butt in the air (like it just didn't care!) and while saw femurs, arms, the spine, butt cheeks, little feet, a cute profile shot, fat cheeks...it would not make its private parts public. :( I was so sad. I almost cried. I don't know why it is important to me to know the gender. It helps me visualize who this child will be so that when I talk to it, pray for it, think about it...to know it isn't some ambiguous being...but a baby with a gender. My baby with a gender and a name! So we went and ate lunch and I drank a huge sugary Cherry Coke and at 3:45 we went back. This time we waited in the office for 30 minutes of sheer agony until we were called. Off to the U/S room we went, the dr. came in and assured us he would do his best to get this baby to flip around and show us who it is! He wasn't kidding. He pressed, poked, prodded. Took pictures, measured the head, the abdomen, the back, etc. The heartbeat was strong, the fluid was clear, the baby is healthy and gave the dr. nothing to complain about. He was able to get a shot between the legs but there was some amniotic fluid there. His final conclusion was that he would be willing to bet money in Vegas that this is a girl...he is 90% sure it is a girl, but since it wasn't the "money shot", he couldn't say 100% for sure. He told us not to paint the room pink yet. haha. Not a problem, there is no room to paint, and even if there were, there is no money to buy pink paint. But until next month when the sonographer does us the favor of looking again or the 3rd trimester when the dr. looks again, this baby is gonna be Delia Ann to all of us. If it turns out to be a boy, no problem, I will love it all the same. But I am going to the library to get some books to read to her and now I feel like I can talk to her and pray a little more specifically...but at the same time, Jesus knows if this is truly a girl or a boy and he since he is our great intercessor...if I am praying specific things about a "girl" then he will translate it for me. :) Isn't he just too kind! But for now, I am excited about it being a girl. I wanted a girl this time around. Mainly because this baby is due so close to the 4th of July that I can just see my middle school boy wanting to have parties with other boys and blowing their thumbs off or something crazy that boys do since they are missing the other leg of the x and got the y chromosome! haha. A girl will just want a slumber party, a trip to the lake, etc. I do feel a little sorry for this child that they will have a summer birthday and friends will be out of town. But we'll see. Maybe she can have two parties...one in May before school gets out and then just a family party in July. If we move to Montana or Wyoming, maybe we can do some fun tradition like Yellowstone or Glacier National Monument. If she takes after me, she will prefer going to see bears than having a bunch of gossiping drama queens over. :) So, I have told some people that I had a dream it was a girl and like the dream I had about the birthing tub and Chris...perhaps Jesus is talking to me in my sleep!!! :) At any rate, we are so excited and we love the name. Delia which comes from the Hebrew name Odilia and means "I will praise the Lord" and Ann in the Hebrew origin means "grace of God". I should feel her move in the next week or two. I thought maybe last night and this morning...but we ate Mexican to celebrate...so maybe it was the frijoles moving around. haha!!! I will keep you posted!!!