one little girl, one little boy!!!

Our appt started a little late, but other than that, all went really well.
there was an intern watching, her name was Dana, and the tech's birthday was the same as mine. i decided that was a good start.
So... she poured goo all over me and started looking around. two babies in there for sure! we looked at Baby A for awhile, measured leg bones and arm bones, checked out stomach, spine, umbilical cord, heart, measured head, saw the brain... and then she told us baby A was a girl!!! we were so excited. it's silly because we would have been just as excited for a boy, but how fun to know! later we found out that Baby A is measuring at about 19.5 weeks (today is 20.2 ish weeks).
then we checked out Baby B. did all the same measurements except Baby B was spine out / facing in, so we couldn't get a clear pic of the heart. The tech wasn't concerned because they can hear the heartbeat at every appt, and then a little later we got a look at one part of the heart, so it's roughly looking good, but they don't know as much as they do about Baby A's heart. She had me roll to my side and such, but the baby didn't turn so she said they'll look for it at the next ultrasound, which should be at 24 weeks. Then she showed us Baby B and was like, can you tell if it's a girl or a boy? we'd learned with baby A that a girl has three lines but... we were like, well, we don't see 3 lines, but there's just a lot of gray fuzz... and then she told us it was a boy. How fun. It was so weird knowing for 20 minutes that we had one girl and one unknown! now we knew: one of each. She also told us Baby B seemed larger than Baby A, but she'd have to go enter some numbers in another room for a bit to get their exact sizes. Oh, also, both babies are vertex / head down, which is great. they can certainly still move, but it's good that they're head down now.
So, the tech left and intern Dana looked around some more for a little while. then the tech came back and told us that Baby B was measuring at 21.something weeks.

usually, you would have your ultrasound and then your doc appt right after or at least the same day. but the scheduling didn't work out for us, so we don't meet with the doc until Tuesday morning. My read from the tech is that all is well with our babies, but I think she'd rather that they were a little closer in size. doesn't seem much off to me, but what do I know? anyways, that seems like a non-major concern so I'm not going to worry about it for now. besides, what would I do anyways? She did say that if she had found something very wrong with either baby that I would have seen a doc right away following the ultrasound. So we can rule out all drastic things.

so that's the scoop! blake and I are both so excited. we love our little babies. :)

we're currently at the Peltons' (even though they're not home now) so that we can borrow a car in case when we go to the emoms sale in a few hours if we find cribs or other large things, we can actually get them home! we might just happen to buy one very cute dress and one very cute boy-outfit while we're there!

it is so weird (and great!) to know the genders. we can start to imagine our little family with just a little more detail now...