It's a Girl!

This past Tuesday, September 13th, we found out that Baby Higginbotham will be a little girl! All of the old wives' tales and the Chinese calendar that John found predicted a boy so we were all surprised to find out it was a girl. I was so excited after the ultrasound that my blood pressure was really high and the nurse made me lay down for a while until I calmed down and it went back down!

I apologize in advance to anyone reading the blog because all of the posts are about to be about baby girl! I plan to take some of the blog posts and create a memory book using the photo book software. It will be my version of a scrapbook and journal since I do not have the patience or craftiness to actually scrapbook!

Now that we are all thinking pink, the shopping madness has begun! My mom, sister, and I took a several hour trip today to Buy Buy Baby to begin picking things out. As you can see from the pictures below, my mom and I are quickly falling into the stereotypical mother and grandmother roles. I am worrying about diapers, wipes, mattress pads, and clothes hangers (my purchases in the left picture) and she is oohing and ahhing over all of the cute outfits, hairbows, and accessories (her purchases in the right picture).



Hopefully, John and I will have a final decision on the name by the next posting! We are almost sure on it now but are taking a couple of days to make sure we don't change our mind. When your family owns a monogramming business you can't change your mind once you announce the name and the monogramming begins!

Cookie Dough

Many people have encouraged me to document my pregnancy either via a journal or pregnancy photos. I am now 20 weeks into pregnancy and have made zero journal entries into my pregnancy journal and have taken zero pregnancy photos. My next thought was to try something a little more fun - a blog. Hopefully, I will be more successful at blogging than my previous attempts to document the adventures of the Higginbotham family!

For the past several weeks, I have been unsure whether or not I felt the baby. One day I would convince myself that I felt the baby move and the next day I would second guess myself. I knew eventually a day would come that I would know for sure. Last night I made some chocolate chip cookies from scratch for our Labor Day weekend at the lake with friends. Of course I had to taste the cookie dough repeatedly to make sure that it was turning out well and lick the bowl.

John had stayed late at a work event to help "clean up" (a.k.a watch the Mississipi State/Memphis game). He has always been opposed to the eating of any raw cookie dough or cake batter since it contains raw eggs. Growing up, my family was the exact opposite. We always had fights over licking the bowl and my mom ate raw cookie dough while pregnant with both me and my sister. This is one reason I chose to make the cookies while John was gone so that I could enjoy as much cookie dough as I wanted without his disapproval :-).

Evidently, Baby Higginbotham loves cookie dough too, because within an hour the baby was moving all over the place! I texted John to let him know that he was missing out on feeling the baby move. He called me immediately and told me that he was on his way home. He also asked me to wait about 15 minutes and eat some more cookie dough so that maybe the baby would still be moving when he got home. This was the first time in our almost 6 years of dating/marriage that John didn't lecture me on the dangers of eating raw dough and even told me to continue eating it lol! Luckily, when he arrived home baby was still moving and John was able to feel it too!