A face a mother (and father) could love

I know she looks a bit alien-like, but here are some photos Brent and I received at our 3-D ultrasound appointment last month.

The appointment was a secret at the time as it produced our birthday present for Diane, a video of her first grandchild, still in utero!

The video is more entertaining than the photos alone, as our stubborn daughter (further confirming that she will be a Taurus like her parents) spent 15 min of our supposedly 15min appointment with her hands and feet firmly in front of her face! The technician (wanting to get her outrageous fee for a 'successful' ultrasound) let our appointment go 5 minutes over in her attempt to jiggle, roll, push, and suggest to our daughter to please stop hiding so mommy and daddy could see her face!

Finally, when I jiggled her hands and feet, our little monkey finally obliged. Then we got all sorts of antics from her - eyes open, yawning, sucking her fingers and toes and even her umbilical cord!

I still find it a bit difficult to make a correlation between these images and the face we'll see in the birthing room, but we stare at her face lovingly nevertheless.

Love,

Jen, Brent and our little monkey

(Her eyes are open in many of the photos, and you can often see her umbilical cord, including the first and last ones where she's got it in her mouth)