Not really too much to tell, but when Katie toured my work, we actually parked in the “Stork” reserved spot for the very first time. Just a neat “first” that warranted a photo and post.

We found the cutest outfit for Lucy!  I think, just maybe that this is going to be her going home from the hospital outfit…at least until I find something else…you never know!

While at the Babies R’ Us Josh, who was very tired of me constantly complaining about not being able to sleep, bought me the Cadillac of all pillows… The Snoogle.

The pillow is the most fantastic, huge, curvy, and long pillow you have ever seen and it magically allows me to be able to sleep for more than 15 minutes at a time.  I love this pillow.  Josh on the other hand has now dubbed it “the divorce pillow” since it takes up mores space than he does.

Poor Joshy.

After we found out that we were having a little girl the shopping started…immediately.  On the way home from the ultrasound we stopped in at the local Babies R’ Us for a little shopping.  As soon as we walked in the door Josh noticed that the clothes were buy one get one free.  I turned to look at something and when I looked back I found my adorable husband wading through the racks and racks of pink frilly dresses and floral onesies finding cute things for his little girl.

After about an hour of looking around we picked out 4 dresses and a ton of designer onesies.  All in all a great day.

If you have talked to Josh and I at all in the last few months we would have told you whole-heartedly that this baby was a boy.  Well much to our surprise during the scan there was no twig and berries and the distinct lack there of made it clear that this was our little girl.

Her name will be Lucille Ann Pettit and we will call her Lucy.  The name Lucille was my great-grandmothers name.  I adored her so when Josh mentioned the name Lucy it just all came together.  The name Ann is my moms name and who are we kidding the name Lucy Ann Pettit is just plain cute!

As excited as we were to have a boy we are even more excited at the thought of our little girl!  We are feeling very blessed today.

We all know that Josh drinks the purple Kool-Aid over at Yahoo, and of course as he was shopping the company store he found baby onesies that say “My Daddy is a Yahoo”.  He fell instantly in love.

So, a few weeks later while I was visiting him at work we decided to go to the store and pick up the beloved onesie.  Ten minutes later we walked out with three.  I love both my Yahoo’s.

Today my mom came in to town for a visit on her spring break.  When I picked her up at the airport she had a huge checked bag and a carry-on bag.  I didn’t think much about this until we went to check her into her hotel and she said “we don’t need to bother taking my bags up”.  I soon realized that she had (in her effort to keep our secret until we were ready tell) shopped her way into Grandma oblivion.

When she got to our apartment she emptied out her bags resulting in a huge pile of wrapped presents for the baby.  That night Josh and I opened all of onesies, socks, and blankets!  It was very exciteing to finally start shopping and getting things for the baby, especially since we hadn’t gotten anything up until this point. Including some amazing Gap Baby’s First Denim that I’m in love with, and of course baby’s first Chucks.

With the NT scan results, we have sent out the announcement to the family. The entire family! We posted on Pettitopia, on facebook and probably 10 other internet mediums. No real content… just a bookmark in our journey. Enjoy the below appropriate clip from probably one of the best “I Love Lucy” episodes.

So normally I wouldn’t be happy about having to have a new OB, but when one moves to a new city its a must.  I love this new doctor!  Today I met with her nurse practitioner whom I adore.  She is very funny and has a very similar personality as me so we got along great!  Because I was new to the practice she had me go next door to the hospital to have an ultrasound, just so they had a more thorough one on file.    The baby is officially starting to move around and is now floating on its umbilical cord.  So while the ultrasound tech was trying to take measurements Monkey was having a field day dancing around.  Every time she thought she was going to get a good one Monkey would dance a little jig and wave at mommy. All of this was making me laugh, which I’m sure wasn’t making anything easier.

So here is the new pic of Monkey at 11 weeks and 6 days.  You will see the head on the right, the tush on the left and the two floating white circles are little hands.

Learning to dance at 11 weeks 6 days