Chickens, Lizards & Little Girls! OH MY!

On Tuesday Ava and I headed out to Wild Rumpus in Minneapolis.
Awhile ago I had purchased a HEAVILY discounted Children's Museum pass on Savvy source, and through that I got some referrals. I ended up with quite a few referral dollars but nothing ever really catches my eyes. So when I saw a book store that wasn't TOO far away. I figured ok that's fine. The deal was 5 dollars for a 10 dollar credit. It allowed me to purchase 5 Max. So I got the max and called it a day. Well most of these offers have expiration dates.. of course I used it THE DAY before it expired. None the less, Ava got some pretty cool books.


I had heard about this bookstore its SO cute! The main door is a large wood door and built in there is a small teal children's door. We used it on the way out not the way in :D
They have TONS of animals roaming the store. I honestly figured it was just a gimmick and when we got there it would be the day they weren't there, or something silly like that. Nope we walked in and were greeted by a HUGE lizard which Ava screeched and ran at with her hands up, 3 Cats which Ava later would attack and Meow at, birds chirping in the background and 3 CHICKENS. Yes, that's right CHICKENS! I thought she would be afraid, like she always is, but today she surprised me, she walked right up to them.  I often had to remind her to be gentle or slow down, it was such a great experience, Id like to try a storytime there in the spring.

Ava checking out the chickens

Its pretty hard to get a good photo of babies and chickens that constantly run places



The black chicken had "FANCY PANTS" on, or so we decided




Oooh you must be wondering about the little GIRLS part?  Well if you aren't you can stop reading.

Today was our Anatomy ultrasound. Tony comes to this appointment. We look at the baby for quite awhile. Koha goes over all the main parts. The heart, to make sure it has 4 chambers. The kidneys. The bladder. The head circumference. Neck folds .. tons of other stuff. People really like this ultrasound because this is where they usually find out what gender the baby is.  Baby is healthy, on track and CUUUUTE.

I was totally team green from the beginning. I wont lie Ive always wanted a girl. I got her, and now at this point its just a bonus.  I wanted a boy in the early part of the pregnancy, because I really thought Tony would enjoy that. I was surprised when he said he wanted another girl.   I honestly thought it was a boy up until about Christmas time. Right before Christmas I changed from wanting a boy to wanting a girl... then I ended up just, it is what it is and its fine and dandy. We went in not wanting to know but honestly I had been thinking about it for awhile and I DID want to know. Tony has ALWAYS wanted to know. So we had the technician write it down and put it in the envelope. That didn't last long.. I kid you not, about 12 min and Tony was in the envelope. Its stupid if one of us knows and the other doesn't so I wanted to know too!

Baby GIRL!!!!

That cute little one is a girl!  I was excited but kinda knew in my gut she was a girl.

We discussed prior if we would keep the gender a surprise.. Honestly ,we aren't that pretentious.

If we know you know. I highly doubt you were wondering EVERY night of the last 22 weeks if we were having a boy or a girl. That being said the same goes for her name. We have no clue as of yet. But I am sure something AMAZING will come to us :D And when it does we will let you know.

Here are some 3D pictures of Murphy 2.0 she wouldn't move her hands from in front of her face so they aren't wonderious. Tony says she looks like me. I say she looks like Ava did but a bit rounder. So we will see when she comes out.  You totally get to see more shots when you are in there and of course the technician never gets the ones you want. Oh well