Daddy's Thoughts

Well as the daddy to be I thought I would give my own version of how the finding out of the gender went. For whatever reason, Tuesday was the longest day ever. I was sitting at my desk and just knew that it was getting close to time to leave. Looked at my watch, 9:30. Gives you a bit of an idea of how long a day it was and then on top of that I was a mix of nervous, anxious, and excited all mixed in to one. Like Mandy said I didnt care either way, if it were a boy I had a sports star to be and if it were a girl I had a Daddy's girl. The people at my office were making friendly bets that it would be a boy. I think one person in my office said it would be a girl. So as I got ready to leave the office to head to the doctor's office, I had it pretty much in my mind that since everyone else thought it was going to be a boy that it was without a doubt going to be a baby girl. As you have read, that's exactly what we were told. The moment they told us I was filled with excitement and a little bit of fear. It was all becoming very real now, I AM GOING TO BE A DAD SOON!!! So all of these emotions and thoughts are going through me then the lady doing the sonogram hands us our pictures from this time. I first see the picture of the head, this along with the thoughts of me having a daughter brought a couple of tears to my eyes (which I quickly and secretly wiped away so Mandy wouldn't make fun of me). I then see the picture that the sonogram lady said was how she could tell it was a girl. Right there on the picture she typed in "Girl Part", seeing that immediately made me laugh. As Mandy said, we immediately went and bought some girl clothes. After looking at the damage that we had done I was suddenly hit with a harsh realization: this baby girl has me right where she wants me and doesn't even know it yet. At 8 oz. she has this 28 year old man already wrapped around her finger. Mandy's mom helped with that realization by confirming that from this point on I am at the mercy of this little girl and that I won't be able to say no when she wants something. A bit scary but I am ok with it.

As much as my friends will probably give me a hard time, I am not ashamed to admit that I am far more emotional about this than Mandy is. She is very excited and already has the nursery the way she wants it in her head, she has everything planned out. Thank goodness for this because I know that I wouldnt be able to do it. This morning I got in my car and on the radio that song "Butterfly Kisses" was playing and I literally got choked up as I am driving to work. Was a little hesitant about telling Mandy about this for fear of her being poked fun of, so I told her and poked fun of myself. Well needless to say there are exciting times in store for the Daniel household and we look forward to every minute of it. All up until the day of her first date, I will have to get back to you on how I will feel about that one. Thinking of ways to scare the boy already though.

It's a Girl!

We have been anxiously waiting to find out what we are having, and on Tuesday we found out that we are having a girl! I had convinced myself that we were having a boy so I wouldn't be disappointed, so I was very surprised to hear it was a girl! Justin said that he didn't care what the gender was, but I think he was secretly glad it is a girl; of course, it was no secret that I wanted a girl all along! We have decided to name her Aubrey Grace Daniel.

We were so excited after our appointment that we stopped at the Carter's outlet store on the way home and bought tons of girly clothes. When we got home I immediately set to buying nursery decorations online...it was so much fun. Mom and I can't wait to do some serious shopping this weekend!