IT'S A GIRL!

Ok so had my dr. appt yesterday to find out what the baby is and IT IS A GIRL! YAY! We will be having Anissa Beth Collins. We are super excited. After the appt we went and registered at Target and Babys R Us. We were gonna register at Walmart but their registry was broken and so we aren’t gonna register there anymore. We found a bunch of stuff at Babys R Us and it is reasonable and so that is great. We looked at all the girl clothes and they were so so cute and that made us super excited to dress her up. And we agreed on most of the clothes that we liked- so that was a surprise. We love their clothes and they are priced well and so that is good too so we can always go and get them later. We then bought her name in white letter from hobby lobby and put her name above her crib. We also cut out orange and light yellow dots from poster board and glued them to the wall to look like it was polka dotted and it turned out really bad! So not sure what I will do about that yet. Mandrae said that he fixed the room with the dots to look better (not sure what he did) but I haven’t seen it yet so we will see.
Anyway the dr. said that the Anissa’s arms and especially legs are SUPER long for her size but that it is okay. It was to be expected do to her parents. They checked all her organs and brain and didn’t see anything abnormal and she is very healthy so that is awesome. They tested Mandrae for cystic fibrosis and so we will find that out soon. If he is positive then we will I guess be transferred to a high risk section where they will test the baby for the disease but she said that they have never had a case where both the parents test positive and that it is really common to be a carrier in the Caucasian race. I gained 6 lbs within the last 4 weeks but I am sure that is from my yummy waffles and peanut butter and syrup. So that is prolly why I gained so much weight and that I am not sick anymore. But I have gained a total of 7 lbs and my dr said that is normal at 5 months. I am 21 weeks today and my due date is said to be around Dec. 6th, 2009. Our new sonogram pics are not that good, the ones from 4 weeks ago were better so I wont post them online today. The baby is still all bones and so the dr said that she is fully developed by now and the rest of the pregnancy is just to fatten her up. Anyway we are super excited now.
At church on Sunday around 20 people found out for the first time that I was pregnant through word of mouth I guess they just thought I was fat. (?) It was funny we were bowling (and I bowled a 175! YAY!) and the lady next to me looked over and said, girl are u preg? She said that she looked over and thought I put a bowling ball in my shirt. Haha it was funny.
Anyway the only other big news is that we stained our fence this weekend. We stained it a dark brown and it looks much much better but we had estimated around a $150 project bc Mandrae was going to do it himself and let me just say that it ended up costing A LOT A LOT A LOT more!!! And you cant just stop in the middle and say this is too much and have half a stained fence so we HAD to pay it. URGH! Mandrae started out by himself and after an hour and a half of staining and only 1/20th of the fence done he called on help from our landscapers to come out and they finished it in 5 hours right when it got dark. So that was good but it was expensive!
I will put up pics of the fence tomorrow.