Mid-Pregnancy Ultrasound (and Pictures!)

We had our mid-pregnancy ultrasound on Thursday of last week.  We were so excited to get a peek at how our baby was growing and to find out 100% whether it was a he or a she.  During our appointment in April, our doctor did a quick ultrasound for us and said our baby looked like a girl.  She did say that it wasn't 100% since it was still early, but it definitely looked to her like it was.  So to me, that meant mentally I've been picturing our baby as a girl for the last month.  Kyle wanted to wait until we had 100% accuracy before committing to boy or girl.  He needed proof.  So we finally got it last week!

Up until that point, if people have asked me personally what gender the baby is, I've told them, but I also gave the doctor's warning as a disclaimer, too.  You know...just in case she decided to grow something extra in the month between ultrasounds.  But she didn't!  Kyle I think was a little bit overwhelmed with the idea of having a girl (pink, princesses, teenage years, dating), but we've decided to give her a blue bedroom and Kyle has vowed that during summer breaks he will be introducing her to several Batman cartoons, so he's definitely okay with it.  

Ultrasound pictures:

Remember when our baby girl was just a seahorse?  This picture was taken sometime in February at about 9 weeks.

At almost 23 weeks, she has a face!

And big Byard feet...

Arms...

And a full torso, complete with a spine, several working organs, and an umbilical cord feeding into her body!

Looks like she might sleep with her mouth open?  Well, we both do that, so she'll fit right in!

We have so much to do before she comes, but I'm so ready to meet her!  The ultrasound tech said she was perfect in every way; everything is working and she has all the parts she needs (they checked about a million things like kidneys, sections of the brain, the heart, the spine, the eyes...EVERYTHING).  Also she is very photogenic--every time the tech told us she was going to begin looking for the next item, baby would literally spin and offer that part of her body up for pictures.  What a turkey!  The only concern right now is that she's breech, but she's got about 10 weeks to turn herself around before the doctors begin to worry that she won't do it herself.  I say she can take her time as long as it gets done, but hopefully she won't procrastinate about it!  

She's also kicking away right now, although the kicks are very low in my abdomen and very light, so it's a little difficult for others to feel them.  Kyle has, though, and I know she's startled one of the cats that had his head laying on my stomach.  I've been joking that maybe we should put her in dance class when she gets older, but I think Kyle would rather die than sit through a dance recital (horrible memories of his sister's recitals).  I'm very excited to see what kind of a baby she'll be like! 

How far away is September again?