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Baby Journal: Week 20 (Gender Reveal)


Hi Baby,

Not only are we halfway to meeting you (halfway through pregnancy now!) but this week we found out whether you're going to be a boy or a girl....and guess what...you're a GIRL! (I know you already knew that...but we didn't!)


I probably feel you move once or twice a day now. Which is still pretty exciting for me each time it happens. At our ultrasound we also saw you sucking your thumb...which is one of my favorite things ever. I was a thumb-sucker until I was 12 (I moved to only at nights for my later childhood) but my parents tried everything to get me to stop. I figured it was only fair that I got a thumb-sucking child as well. I'll tell you all the terrible things people use to tell me if I didn't stop...things like my teeth would fall out or that they would install spikes in my mouth if I didn't stop.



We've been having a lot of fun with your cousin during Week 20! You two are going to be best friends :) 

Your dad even felt you move this week! I was actually really surprised when it happened, but you were so active that he felt my stomach and you gave a pretty big kick that he could feel. It shocked me more than it shocked him I think...but I'm realizing how hard you're going to be kicking me over the next few months.

We're predicting that you have a pretty good shot at being a blonde haired kid (like your dad and me were growing up), you'll probably have attached earlobes like both of us, need glasses, and your dad thinks from your ultrasound of your feet that you already have your mom's super long second toe. I'm really hoping you have your dad's eyelashes, because he has the longest eyelashes. You may have squinty eyes like I had as a kid, but we're both hoping you have your dad's calm demeanor (since rumor has it your dad was always quiet and never got in trouble). Between the two of us, I was the trouble maker in our family...so let's hope you don't take after me. 

Symptoms: This whole bending over and getting lightheaded issue is getting on my nerves. From trying to work outside in the yard, to taking photos...its obnoxious.

Promise: Now that we know you're a girl...I want to promise the one thing I used to tell myself I would NEVER do to my girl...I will never cut your hair short. I know my parents loved my short hair, and said everyone loved it, and no one thought I was a boy...but they lied. I grew up being mistaken for a boy, and crying in front of the mirror because I knew I looked like a boy. I don't blame my parents, because a large part of it was my inability to grow hair....but I will do everything I can (even if we do baby extensions) to make you not be mistaken as a boy.


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