What if...

this baby is NOT a girl.

penis or no penis?? (sorry if this picture is crude to you. i find it hilarious!! my favorite wall art in all of midland :)

Because, you know, we don't know for sure. We just know that at our 15 week sonogram the tech told us she thought she saw "girl parts". Well that was enough for me :)

I remember laying there with the jelly on my belly (warm surprisingly...on movies they always squirm because it's cold) and giggling because of course it would be a girl...we had only picked out boy names!

So when I got home that afternoon (Joseph was unable to go because of class for work so both our mommas went with us. Awesome experience to share with them!) we began discussing names. The old name we liked before was Matilda Joe, but Joseph declared he didn't like that name anymore. We really argued for almost a week before one day Joseph said "why don't we just call her Charley". I was hesitant at first, but then the more I thought about it, the more I LOVED it!! :)

Originally Charley had been one of the two boy names we had picked out, and so if this little baby does decide to grow a penis, then he will be called Charley Thatcher instead of Charley Cate. It's as simple as that.

As far as nursery planning goes, I really want to use gender neutral things throughout so that we can reuse all our big ticket items for the subsequent babies we have in the future. Of course if Charley Girl is born she will inherit my antique Snow Whites that were my mother's, and if Charley Boy is born then he will inherit his daddy's boy stuff :)

So if the gender changes I will be sure to let you know. But for right now, I deeply feel connected to this little baby and my bet is that it's a little girl :)

15 weeks (about)

16 weeks