anatomy scan

We have our anatomy scan today!! Hard to believe how fast this pregnancy is going by, but we also found out a little later than we have previously and those egg shells we walked on at first considering the IUD removal risk. I have to say, the gender is kind of the last thing on my mind when going for this ultrasound. Anthony is shaking his head reading this because I'm such a worrier. Anything as in depth as this always makes me nervous. I think Madeline's anatomy scan changed my view when they found choroid plexus cysts on her brain and warned us of her soft markers for Downs Syndrome. I was not scared of DS as much as I was the health issues that come along with it. But, it was still so unnerving to walk away from a happy experience hearing of cysts on your baby's brain. Obviously everything was ok in the end, as they assured it would be.
They know and see so many things in this little human you haven't even met yet...it's both amazing and frightening at the same time. So, today, I will be praying to see a very healthy little baby in there....it's all gravy after that.
Now, for the fun stuff. We will not find the gender out.....today. Haha, it was fun being surprised for Joseph, since we knew thought he'd be our last, but I think this baby surprised us enough already. So, since I'm going to this appointment alone, I'm going to get the gender in an envelope and a friend is making us a cake to cut after dinner tomorrow night...just us and the kids. Anthony is working entirely too far away to attend this and taking the littles by myself seemed bananas, so I'm picking Joshua up early to watch them at home. Ah, having a 15 yr. old helper is wonderful...at times. That's the plan. We'll know tomorrow night! We plan on sending our family the video immediately....unless we can figure out a simple way to video chat with all of them at the same time. But, that might get too confusing for the older folks if we have them join ovoo or something.haha.
Madeline's thoughts? She said that "the cake WILL be pink when we cut it open, NOT blue". I was explaining that God determines whether the baby is a girl or boy. So, apparently, "God wants the cake to be pink". This video of miss thang's reaction may go viral.HA!

Anthony likes to play the "would you have known you were pregnant yet?" game every few days. I finally said MOST DEFINITELY because well, it's kind of hard to hide now.

I'm craving a lot of pumpkin still...I normally HATE pumpkin with a passion, but now it seems like the most wonderful thing ever. Oh, and all of you posting your pumpkin beers, eff you. Kidding. Kind of.