18 Weeks

Today started out very frustrating. Brandon and I had been waiting for this day for a while because we were convinced we would find out the sexes of our babies. The doctor's office is literally about 5 minutes from my house and so I wanted to get there a bit early and left about 9:40 for my 10am appointment. I get on the highway and immediately thrust into bumper to bumper traffic because of construction and 1 lane being closed. The length from the time I get on the highway to the exit is about a mile but it took almost 15 minutes. So, I'm officially late by this point. THEN, I finally get off the highway on my exit and the traffic is as a hault again! I called Brandon and turns out there was a funeral procession for a firefighter happening right in front of my doctors office and they had all of the entrances blocked off and wouldn't let traffic through. So, now I'm almost 15 minutes late for my appointment. I called my doctor to let them know I was late and they put me on hold for what seemed like 10 minutes so I finally got so frustrated that I just hung up, turned off my car and waited. I finally get into the office about 10:20 and they had the nerve to give me a hard time about being late and "hope they can squeeze me in". :-0 I couldn't believe it. So, we patiently wait in the waiting room, get back to the ultrasound room and find out that I'm not having a traditional ultrasound but a cervical scan. OMG, at this point I was about to just go off. I asked the tech if she could tell me what the sexes were with that thing and she said no. I was just about to burst into tears when she offered to do both and try to figure out the sexes. So, almost right away after putting the little wand over my belly she saw A GIRL! I was so happy! Just a few short seconds later she told us that we also had A BOY! I have never felt so lucky and blessed in my whole life. I am now more excited than ever to get the ball rolling on buying stuff and picking out names. Tomorrow is our 5 year anniversary and we have decided to go out of town for the weekend and now that we know what our babies are, I'm sure we'll spend most of our time talking about names. :-)

Ok, off to bed. I'll post again when I have new information! Love you all!