Wind blown from sails

Oh my goodness! We were sooo excited today to go to the doctor to have the 18 week ultrasound where we'd find out whether we'd be parents of a boy or girl. Uh...didn't happen. I was so confused when we arrived at Radiology and they informed us that we didn't have an appointment with them. Then, when we went upstairs we realized that we'd never been scheduled for an ultrasound today. For some reason there were several errors in scheduling and we were mistakenly scheduled for a second "ultra-com" which was unnecessary. As we went in to see Dr. Brown it was all clarified as he explained to us that we just can't have an 18 week ultrasound when we're only 16 weeks along. I guess I had heard "ultra" when scheduling the last appointment and I knew that the next ultrasound was the biggie so I got overly excited and made some assumptions. Nevertheless, we did hear the heartbeat again and the diabetes educator told us we have "quite a little squirmer".
Everything looks great still. We will be heading back to the doctor on September 9th for the real appointment we thought was today. That will be week 19 and by then we should be able to tell 'boy or girl' with more confidence.
Other news on our end--we had a black bear in our backyard this morning. At about 4am we woke up to some banging around in the backyard. He was attempting to get into our yard waste bucket! Pretty exciting stuff.