It's a GIRL!!!!!!!!!

It's a girl, it's a girl! I'm just a LITTLE excited about this. I love the little boys and I would have been more than happy to have another sweet fella running around wearing camouflage and athletic themed attire. But now I get ruffles and sparkles and heart themed clothing! What is this, does it seem that I wanted a girl primarily because of the clothing? Yes, yes I absolutely wanted a girl for the clothing. It wasn't for the teenage years that Nathan is dreading above all other things.

Nathan, Bradley, and I all went in for my ultrasound last Monday, on February 4th. It was quite a long ultrasound because our little darling is already a very active baby and squirmed around the entire time. The poor ultrasound technician kept having me turn from one side to another in order to try to get a look at all the things they check on and it took her about 10 minutes at the end just to get a head measurement because of all the moving about. I firmly believe that behavior in the womb is an indication of the temperament of the child so we're calling our little girl Kera 2.0 while I'm pregnant after Nathan's cousin Kera who apparently was a wild child in the womb and was an extremely active and precocious child. Now she's a teenager and is a lovely girl so we are hopeful that our little 2.0 will follow the same path!

It was so exciting when we officially confirmed that we were having a girl. I said that I didn't really care either way but I did start to cheer and applaud when we were told so apparently I was lying to myself. Nathan actually has two fears about having a girl, the teenage years and how much I'm going to spend on baby clothes. I don't think he needs to worry too much about the teenage years, I wasn't too bad. But his second fear is being realized RIGHT NOW to my great delight. We only have one newborn outfit so far and it's a white frilly sundress. I'm focusing on the essentials.

Bradley is really helping me feel happy and fairly confident about adding a second child to this family so soon because he is sleeping through the night like a champ, well on his way to learning how to walk, and just being a delight to be around in general. I know I'm biased, but even if this wasn't my child I would think he was the cutest and best behaved child ever ever ever. Okay, perhaps I'm a little biased. But he's such a little doll baby, full of happiness and joy. Even when he cries he's cute. I may lose some parenting points for this, but I have so much fun when he tries to touch forbidden things because I get to say no to him and he sticks out his lower lip and cries a little. It's adorable, I need to take a picture but I feel it's probably not great to make your child cry in order to take pictures. He's so good, he'll listen to me and not touch the light socket or vase or whatever else is forbidden for a little baby even though it makes him sad. But he's devious, he'll check to see if I'm watching before trying to touch something he knows he's not supposed to.

He's good with me and Nathan. My parents however ... this child already knows that they are complete pushovers. And so they are his favorite people. We went up to their house on Camano for a friend's baby shower this past weekend and I kid you not, my child woke up once we parked and was cuddly against me for the thirty seconds it took to get him out of the car and walk into the house ... and then he saw Grandpa. He literally pushed away from me and reached an arm out for Grandpa to take him. Thanks, child. My parents happily let him pull everything out of their kitchen cupboards and my mom made the ten month old unfrosted cupcakes so he could have a treat at the end of his dinner. I can't compete with this. They watched him for the Super Bowl a couple weeks back and we were away for an entire awake period and he didn't care because he had Grandma and Grandpa. I called to check in and my father couldn't get me off the phone fast enough because they were too busy having fun with their grandchild. I now understand how Nathan felt when his mother ignored her only son when he picked her up at the airport because she was too busy jumping in the backseat of the car in order to play with Bradley. It's weirdly heartwarming to be passed over in favor of your child.

And it's wonderful that he loves them so much because we're going to having to leave him with them for three days straight in about a week and a half because ... we're moving to KANSAS CITY. For a NEW JOB. And it's FAR AWAY. And both EXCITING and TERRIFYING at the same time. So we'll be spending the weekend house hunting before moving there in about a month. Nathan has been looking for a new job for a little while now and this seems like a great opportunity for his career, as well as a nice change in terms of our living situation. I say this never having experienced a midwest summer or winter but I think Nathan is looking forward to being a midwest boy once more. I just hope no one judges me when I refuse to drive anywhere because there's half an inch of snow on the ground.

So, big news all around! Nathan actually got the call with the job offer in the middle of our ultrasound, it was quite the happy day for the Scott household. Bradley won't even be one when we make the move, it's weird to think that he won't even remember Washington. And who knows where another five or ten years will take us. All that's important to me is that I have my husband and babies with me and a few kitties for additional fun and cuddles. And thank goodness for modern air travel because this would be a lot harder to do if I wasn't sure my parents would be able to make fairly frequent trips to visit and that coming back to visit is only a four hour plane flight away. Meeting new people won't be too tough, Nathan and I are friendly and Bradley is a charmer! But we'll miss the good friends we've made here, it will definitely be a transition. Again, thank goodness for modern technology because we'll hopefully actually keep in touch with everyone via email and Facebook as well as this blog!

Pictures will be up soon (I promise for real this time) because now all my midwest family has the link to the blog and I want them to see how adorable Bradley is. I have so many great photos and videos to sort through. Soon!