It's a Boy!!

In my last blog, I mentioned that we were still waiting to hear if our baby is a he or she. Well, we had the ultrasound yesterday and it’s a little boy! Everything’s just the way it should be; he’s a good size and very active.

The ultrasound tech was having a hard time getting any good pictures of him because he moves around so much. If any of you have ever seen pictures from a 3D ultrasound, you’ll know that they can be very detailed and you can see pretty well what the baby’s face looks like.

Well, Eli wasn’t having any of it. He’s turned facing in towards me and kept his arm up over his face the entire time, all the while moving all over the place. She managed to finally get a decent profile picture of him anyway.

As soon as we found out, my husband sent a mass text message to all of our friends and family. Everyone’s pretty excited.

Our best friends have been working on adopting a little boy from Taiwan and just got the news that they get to leave for Taiwan to get him on March 4th. He was born in November, so he and Eli will be pretty close in age. We’re all looking forward to the boys playing together and a little fearful of the havoc they most likely will wreak.

Right after the appointment, we went for ice cream and then did a little shopping. I just got the baby book, so I can start working on that.

I’m a bank teller and at work we have internet access. They pretty much let us do whatever when there are no customers. Today I spent most of the day looking at little boy clothes and checking out what we might want to put on our registry. There are way too many choices!

The first thing I did this morning though was to order the bedding we had picked out. My husband is a cop, and I found this set that is just perfect. It’s got a vintage patchwork look to it, in a lot of reds, blues and tans. But what makes it perfect is that it’s got pictures of police cars, badges, fire trucks and Dalmatians on it.

I can’t wait to get moved into our new place and get everything set up!

We’re coming along pretty well as far as buying a lot of the stuff we’ll need. The bedding was the last expensive item. We already have the crib, car seat and stroller. We’ll probably just register for everything else and hope that our friends and family help foot the bill a bit!

We’re both just so excited to finally know now. It’s great to be able to say “he” and not “it.” It’s kind of a strange feeling though. The ultrasound was the event I’d been waiting anxiously for all these weeks and its come and gone. Now it just seems a little more real to both of us.
The next big thing to look forward to is THE BIG THING.