Introducing Gnarsha the Pin-Up Girl

I would like you all to say hello to the first glimpse of my future daughter, who is currently nameless but sporting the very fine nickname of Gnarsha, which is a made-up name my brother created during a midnight round of Scattergories. And for the time being, it fits.


Pictured here are her little girly parts, which she hid from us modestly until the end of the sonogram. We actually had to poke her to get her to unclench those little thighs. But clear as day, there we have it--a teeny tiny 1 pound girl living in my uterus.
And a dainty little foot, which kind of looks like a flipper...
And here she is, blowing kisses with her puckered lips. We got a good view of her face, which has big eyes, a little nose, and a giant grey smudge which were her Angelina Jolie lips, apparently. In this photo, which shows her profile perfectly (because my placenta is in my back instead of in the front, and because I have little belly fat), her nose looks like Ricky's TO A TEE. Not kidding. You can see her head is shaped like mine, though--pencil head--so she's definitely mine.

And in this one, she's smiling, and her nose looks more like a button, like mine. Her cheeks bunched up here, and you can see the white spots on the sides of her head which are her ears. She was smiling and kissing, smiling and kissing, with her arms up around her head like a supermodel pose...

Which leads to her legs and her little heart-shaped apple bum. She kept one leg scrunched up, the other lying flat out, kind of like a pin-up girl. She was swimming around plenty--she started with her head down, in birth position, floated up to my side (which is when my sciatic nerve started wigging out--she likes to hang out here whenever I try to walk) and then back down.
So, this probably makes me a creepy pageanty "mother dearest" but I can't help but brag. Look at her! She's gorgeous!
A lot of peoole predicted this baby would be a boy. I definitely have that aura of someone who could do well playing pirates with a son, but at night, for the past five months, I have had vivid dreams of a little girl playing hide-and-seek behind trees, wearing sailor dresses and flower halos, chubby wrists with bracelets in the creases... She's been with me all along. I can't wait to meet her.