Baby #2 Is A Boy!! :)

Here's a true story for you. Before I found out I was pregnant again, I told Ryan that I didn't care if we ever had a boy. I didn't feel like I had any idea what to do with a boy because I never grew up with a brother and I don't like to do things that I feel are "boy" things to do. I'm not an outdoorsy person, I've never been good at sports, I hate being dirty/sweaty...all boy things!! I didn't feel like I could relate to a boy at all! When I told all of this to Ryan he told me that boys don't expect their moms to do that kind of stuff. :)

Fast forward to May 7, 2010. That was the day I found out I was pregnant. That night, I had a dream that I was at my ultrasound appointment and we found out the baby was a boy. I'm thinking maybe that was God's way of working on me because from that point on I just felt that this baby was a boy. And the more time I had to think about what that would mean and how I really could handle that...and not just "handle" it, but enjoy it, the more excited I became about having a boy.

Fast forward again to my July appointment. I was 14 weeks at the time and told my doctor that I felt like this baby was a boy and I knew that you could tell that really early so I thought we should wheel in her little portable ultrasound machine and just see if we could see anything. She laughed and told me that the quality of that machine wasn't very good and they could barely tell the head from the tail with it! Then she told me that she'd let me find out at my next appointment in 4 weeks. I was really surprised about that because with Karys she told me I had to be 20 weeks at least before I could find out.

We had the ultrasound done yesterday. When the sonographer started, she said that she couldn't determine gender at that point because the umbilical cord was in the way, but that we'd come back to it. She started taking all of the measurements that she's supposed to take and was great at telling us everything she was seeing as she was seeing it. Then at the end she said that she could tell what the sex of the baby was, but she couldn't seem to get a good picture of it. I told her that I thought the baby was a boy and she said I was right! She pointed out his "parts" to us and said that he was turned in such a way that she just couldn't get a good picture of it. I told her I didn't care about that, all I really cared about was finding out the sex of the baby! :) She told us she was certain she was right about it being a boy. She was also able to get us some really good 4D pictures, which surprised her as well because at this point the baby is really small.

I really do love the doctor that I have and I'm so thankful that she was willing to accomodate this impatient mommy! :)

Here are a couple of pictures of our little guy (who is nameless as of yet!):This is a full-body picture...head is at the top and the body is curved around. Unfortunately these did not scan in that well!!

This is a really sweet profile picture. I look at it and think, "That really looks like a boy!" But I don't know if I think that because I know or not! :)

And I like this one because I'm just wondering if we're going to have another thumb-sucker on our hands!! :)

I gotta say I'm excited to be joining all of you "boy moms!" :) And I'm so thrilled to not be having a summertime baby...it's way too hot to be "big pregnant" right now!!