If you’ve been eyeballing my Twitter over there on the top-righthand side, then you saw my staggered announcement around 2pm this afternoon: We are INDEED having a girl!  First off, I was just impressed simply to get a look.  A “beyond a doubt” look too, as it would happen.  See, the sonographer first saw this:

Which, I don’t know, I was taking her word for it.  She explained the whole “hamburger” thing to me, and I’d heard it before, but when you’ve already had three boys, you tend to be skeptical.  Still, she was positive.  And I got a little excited.  We got some great pictures of the baby in 3D, like this one:

I mean, COME ON, is that adorable?  I know I’m biased and everything but sheesh.  I want to eat this child already.  Still, we asked her if we could have another look at the goods and she was more than happy to comply.  And we got this shot, which made us feel a whole lot better about the “girl” thing:

Mostly because, hey, those the “three lines” that everyone is always talking about.  You know, the three lines that we have NEVER seen before.  It was then that I think I truly relaxed about it.

So yeah.  It’s a girl!   Afterward, we stumbled over to Kohl’s (still in shock, mind you), where I’m not embarrassed to tell you that I promptly purchased a wee girly outfit.  Because, DUDE.  It’s time.

If you’d like to see more pictures from the ultrasound, head on over to my flickr where I have the full batch up (at least the ones I captured from the DVD they gave me because I was too lazy to scan the prints they made me).  And if anyone out there is on the fence about whether or not they should get a 3D ultrasound, DO IT.  It’s so worth it and that’s not just the gender talking.  Trust me on this one.

It is merely 8:30 (I’ve been up for about an hour but that’s neither here nor there), but the day is already stretching like a never-ending parade of consumerism.  This is our “shopping day”.  We got a sizable chunk of Christmas money this year and today is the day we get to spend a good portion of it.  Lest you think we’re the types to walk into a store and just go nuts, I want to let you know we’ve spent the last week compiling a list of wants and needs and paring it down to the bare-bones “must haves” and prioritizing each potential purchase.  We are cheap, remember?  And we want to get the most bang for our buck here.  Plus, we want to save at least half of the money we received.

We’ve done some shopping before now, a little on Wednesday and a little more yesterday.  That was more spending gift cards and the like though (though not all of them quite yet), since our bank put a hold on this deposit for several days since it was rather… ahem… large.

So today we are going to finally purchase our Xbox 360.  This is a purchase we have put off for so long that frankly, I’m quite impressed.  I felt for sure that we would cave in when Halo 3 came out on September 25th.  But we didn’t, we held firm.  And today is finally the day.  The last couple of days we scouted around town for the best deal we could find on the system and game and I think we’ve found a winner.  This way we won’t have to run all around town today pricing things out.  See how efficient we are??  I imagine tonight there will be much playing of Halo 3 going on.

I’m also going to get a vision exam and hopefully FINALLY order my new glasses!  WEE!  I need new glasses so bad it makes the mind boggle.  Every single stinkin’ time I’ve gotten my eyes checked in recent years (and there have only truthfully been a few times) I’ve gone for the contacts instead.  This is because I used to wear contacts all the time and NEVER wore glasses.  And I hate wearing glasses.  I would much rather wear contacts but for some reason, my eyes are just resistant to them anymore and they are never comfortable in my eyes anymore.  BAH.  This time, I’m going to resist.  I’m going to order glasses.  I’ll settle for anything that is remotely comfortable and helps me see better though it’d be a bonus if they’re cute as hell.

I’m getting my haircut done today as well.  It had to be rescheduled from yesterday which was probably for the best but makes today even fuller.  My appointment is at 11am and I’m trying out the salon in Ulta for a change.  I’m excited to see what it’s like and hope I walk away with a fantastic haircut.  I’m hoping for long layers or something of the sort, as I’d like to keep my longish hair.  The other day I picked up some hair dye and a highlighting kit which hopefully Kile will help me do here in the next day or two (before we go to Elko).  I want to get my hair cut first so we can better see where to place the highlights.  Perhaps with the glasses and the new hairdo, I’ll look like a new woman.  Ya think?

And how can we forget the ultrasound? (1:30pm, PST!!)  I’m trying not to think about it right now.  I’m glad I have so many other things to occupy my mind and keep me distracted today.  I will have my cell phone on me though and will be sure to Twitter any news as soon as I have it.  Shoot, even if there is NO news, I will still Twitter it.  Because that’s just how I roll.

In the meantime, I’m going to go chug some water (want to be all nice and hydrated!), take a shower, and pester my boys about when we’re going to blow this popsicle stand.