20 Weeks, It's a girl!!!!!

A lot has gone on in the past month. Katie graduated college, which meant another family trip to Disney World!!! Kim, Steve and the boys came up here to visit for a weekend. Amanda graduated high school and the Dance Explosion recital was last weekend. And...we found out that it's a girl!!!!!! It was all very exciting! Dr. Dixon took me (and Nick) to his office on a night where I was working and he was on call. At first he didn't sound too confident that she was a girl but after he looked at a few other things (which were all fine) he kept on going back to check and finally by the end of the ultrasound he said that definitely it's a girl. Now, this made me a little nervous about saying anything because what if he was wrong. I mean, it looked like a girl to me, but what do I know?! So we went to our official scheduled ultrasound with Dr. Willis last Thursday and he (and the ultrasound tech) said it was a girl too. That made me feel a lot better. I could not even imagine if they had found boy parts and we had already told everyone it was a girl!!! Josh (Nick's cousin) would have never let Nick live that down! I realize the next question asked is "do you have a name yet"? Well, I think we do. I'm just a little nervous to say that it is definitely the name. Nick really wants the middle name to be Lynn, for his mom. He won't actually say that but I know it's true. And I'm OK with that, I like Lynn as a middle name. As for first names...Nick likes more common names and I like more not so common names. We had a little list of ones that we both liked and we keep going back to Alexa. Now, I realize that there is a particular small red headed child that I did solos for named Alexa. But, I don't really care. I just really like the name. You can shorten it to Lexie (or even Alex if she wants), which is super cute. It's in the top 100 names for 2009 but it's number 65 or 70. So it's common enough (people with more common names are generally more successful in life) but not too common that there are going to be multiple Alexa's in her class in school. And while I know that it's the name of a dance girl...guess what? So were all the other names on the short list! Like Bailey, Katie and Leeza for example. Let's face it, with me being a dance teacher and Nick being a 5th grade teacher, there weren't many names that we haven't come across before. The only thing that I don't love about it is when you put the Alexa and the Lynn together. Say it fast. Alexa Lynn. It kind of mushes together weird. Hense, no final decision. Let me know what you think. Oh, and here's a 20 week picture. Still more butt than belly! (Glyniss wanted to be in the picture too!)