well, it's a girl

sugar, spice, and everything nice.

that's what little girls are made of.

well...if she's anything like me, we might have our hands full.

my parents called me the "general authority baby" because i went bald on top for a while...

[please let my baby girl have hair]

for my 3 yr. old birthday, all i wanted was a batman watch. (my mom made this "watch" out of felt and puff paint, i loved it)

what happened to dolls?

they had to mandate the "11 second rule" when i was a toddler...because i couldn't be left alone for more than 10 seconds without causing havoc.

evidently, sometimes that rule was broken

and i had a bit of an attitude.

when we were kids, if we got grouchy, our parents would call us "ferguson". like, "oh no...what happened to our beautiful daughter meredith? all i can see is ferguson."

we probably developed some type of complex from that. kind of traumatizing ha ha.

but you can't say i lacked enthusiasm (i think i relapsed into this stage during high school, fanny pack included)

and then there was the infamous "jonathan taylor thomas" stage, as andrew calls it....when i was a total tomboy for all of my youth. (this was full blown. all my friends were boys. i was first pick during flag football at recess. i shopped at the boys section of old navy...those convertible pants that zipped off into shorts were my favorite. i even wore boxers for a couple of years.)

things got scary for a while:

i am the #1 stunna on the right.

so with that in mind...here's to our future.

i'm sure it'll be an adventure. and i'll take the "sugar and spice" poem with a grain of salt...

p.s. maybe she will be good at this. she moves and kicks allll day long. andrew has been able to feel it since 21 weeks...you can even see the kicks through my stomach.i feel it on one side of my stomach then on the opposite side a second later. she covers a lot of ground.

i can only imagine what it will be like as she gets bigger. at my last appointment, the doctor asked if i've been feeling movement. i said, yeah i've been feeling a lot. then as he was trying to hear the hearbeat, he was like "wow, this baby does move a lot...i can't get it to stay in one place long enough to listen".