The lady poured some kind of sticky syrup all over her belly.
Daughter: "It's Coooold".
Lady: "Sorry".
Me: "Sit still so she can get on with the show".
Daughter: "BUT IT'S COLD!"
Brody: "oohmagaayeda" The lady powered up the machine
Me: "I can't stand this".
Daughter: "Me either, it's still cooooold and sorta goopy feeling".
Me: "Becca, Please sit still so she can get on with the show"
Me: "Brody honey, don't eat that cord".
Me "Not that one either".
Me: Handing him a cracker "Eat this".
Brody: "oohmagaayeda".
The lady poised the handle over her belly.
Me: "Oh my lord I can't take it any longer, can you tell yet?"
Lady: "No".
Me: "WILL YOU PLEASE sit still so she can get on with the show"
Daughter: "Why exactly did I bring you here mommy?"
Me: "So you wouldn't have to walk".
Daughter: "Well there is that".
Daughter: "Yow, jeez I need to pee".
Brody: "PeePeePeePeePeePeePeePeePee".
Me: "Jeez Becca, now look what you taught him to say". The lady flicked on the screen.
Daughter: "There now you happy mommy?"
Me: "No, can she tell me yet?"
Lady: "No".
Me "Oh Sweet Jesus, Is That Her Heart??"
Lady: "You want it to be a girl?"
Me: "Hell Yeah".
Brody: "hellhellhellhellhellHELLhellhell".
Daughter: "Jeez Mommy, now look what you taught him to say". A recognizable body part came onto the screen. Not a sound in the room. Then ...
Daughter: "Oh, my gosh".
Me: "Oh my gosh".
Lady: "It's pretty amazing isn't it?"
Brody: "Gossgossgossgossgossgossgoss". Then ...
Me: "It's her face! Ohhhhhh loooooooook!"
Daughter: "It looks like you mommy".
Me: Through tears and snuffles, "It looks like a skull".
Lady: "It is, I need measurements".
Me: "Can you look for the rumpus?"
Lady: "We have a long time, I need a lot of measurements".
Lady: "What's a rumpus?"
Me: "It's her butt".
Brody: "buttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbutt".
Daughter: "MOMMY!" What seemed like an eternity later....
Me: "Boog, please eat the crackers, not the couch cushion, couches are for sitting not eating".
Brody: "Numnumnumnumnumnum".
Daughter: "You said the E-A-T word".
Me: "Brody lets look at the baby".
Brody: "BaybeeBaybeeBaybeeBaybee".
Lady: "Okay here's what you came to see Grandma".
The tiniest of full moons came into view. I stared in wonderment and awe. There are no words I can say that puts into perspective what I saw last Wednesday. She is most defiantly a she. I saw it myself through the miracle of science and technology, I was able to look inside my daughter's womb and see my tiny granddaughter. I saw her little heart, and cried when the Lady turned on the sound. I saw a perfect little foot come into view. Ten tiny fingers and ten tiny toes. A button nose. A mouth that sucks a thumb. She is in every way perfect and healthy, with the Lady's disclaimer, "We can't see all birth defects, but from everything gathered she appears right on schedule". I won't be able to hold her for another 4 months. The Lady took a photo of her for us. The photo depicts a golden dolls face. A three dimensional eerily beautiful photo of my unborn granddaughter. She is perfect. My daughter's tiny little daughter.
Cloey Jo.
and I smile through tears of joy and awe and relief.....
love me later ~ tj
