Is it July yet?

That’s the question Patrick asked me after our very successful and exciting ultrasound and midwife appointment this morning.  We’re already getting antsy about the baby getting here and we’re barely half way through the pregnancy!!!  This was our last of three ultrasounds and we got some pretty neat pictures out of it.  We’re at 21 weeks and were able to confirm the estimated due date of July 4th.  During this ultrasound they did a full body inspection, counting fingers and toes, looking at facial features including lips, nose and distance between the eyes, counted the chambers of the heart, counted the three veins in the umbilical cord, checked out the brain, kidneys, and bladder, measured arm and leg bones, and looked at the base of the neck and the length of the spine.  Everything checked out perfectly and we couldn’t be MORE THRILLED!!!  It was SO exciting to finally see the baby looking like a very complete human being.  We had the option of finding out the sex today (and it is currently written in our chart), but we stuck to our guns and decided not to know.  Our midwife made the good point that if we were meant to know, we would have been built with windows in our stomachs!  So 21 weeks and counting… is it July yet?