Seems Noah (and mom) are going to have some stiff competition in the stubbornness and drama departments.  Walter and I went for a routine ultrasound today at the perinatologist’s office to be sure she was head down (which I didn’t need an ultrasound to tell me) and that all was well in the womb.  Apparently Kate has been enjoying a little too much second hand ice cream and is destined to be a big baby.  At 32 weeks she weighs 5 pounds, 10 ounces (approximately, based on ultrasound) which puts her as an average 35 week baby.  While it’s great she is big and healthy the doctor felt that if she kept up all this growing we may need to consider coaxing her out a bit early.  Early in like 5 weeks.  FIVE WEEKS!?  Might as well be tomorrow for as much as we still need to do to be ready.  While we scramble paint and buy all the things left on our registry I leave you with a few closeups of our little girl.  By the way, she was very annoyed through the whole thing.  The tech would push on her to get her to move and she would punch right back.  She gave tons of attitude and really challenged the tech for these shots.

Here is her profile done with standard ultrasound technology.  For those that think these look like Rorschach inkblot tests, she’s facing the left side of your screen, you can see her nose and lips pretty well, her hand is over her head and her gut is the bubble all the way on the left.

The rest were done with 3D ultrasound technology.  We’ll have to dig out Noah’s and compare.  Here you can see an eye, her nose and her open mouth pretty well.  They tell us that the back of her head is covered in hair but she seems to have a receding hairline ‘do at the moment.  She may really look like a little old man!

And this is when she’d had enough.  Her hand is cupping her forehead, that’s her pinky closest to her eye.  It seems as if we were giving her a headache!  Diva!

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