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!