We are only having one ultrasound during my entire pregnancy, and my midwife strongly recommended that we waited until I was 21 weeks to do the ultrasound. Ben has been going crazy since about 17 weeks, because he knew that you can tell the gender that early. We didn't find out with Prairie and Ben says we are never doing that again. I thought it was fun not knowing the whole pregnancy, but Ben didn't, so we found out this time and ....... we are having a BOY! We are soooo excited! Ben was really really hoping for a boy, and I was really excited for either, I totally thought it would be fun to have 3 little girls, but if I really had my druthers, I was probably slightly leaning towards the boy side (completely unlike with Autumn and Priarie, where I most decidedly wanted girls, and would have had to have a total adjustment, and a little disappointment to find out I was having a boy, but my feelings have been really different with this pregnancy).
You can see the head and the hands
Anyway I am excited about having a boy. Autumn was kind of hoping for another sister, but she seems fine with it. I was talking to her about having a baby brother and she said she was a little sad because she wanted a girl. Then she told me that she was worried because boys die before girls, and I exclaimed, where did you hear that, and then she tells me that her baba Russ (my dad) told her that. Then I tried to explain the context, that when people get really old, often men a little younger, but the real thing is she was worried about her baby brother dying. So then I promptly called my dad and "thanked" him for giving Autumn that little piece of information, when she isn't really old enough to understand the context, my dad just chuckled.
The baby's spine
Also one other note of interest, Autumn has seemed really excited about the ultrasound, so we decided that she would go late to preschool today so she could go with us. Well we went and they were running a little behind schedule so we started a movie in the waiting room. Well once it was our turn, the room is just off from the waiting room, and we were the only people in the office, so the ultrasound tech said the girls could stay in the waiting room and keep watching the movie if we wanted and we could leave the door open. So Autumn has been so excited about this ultrasound, but when it came down to it, the rugrats movie was way more exciting, so Ben had to yell out to the waiting room to tell the girls that they were having a baby brother, Autumn initial response "oh ok" (leave me alone i am watching this movie). Anyway I was amused by that.
So to celebrate today I made this outfit for our little boy. I am very excited, but also feel very busy since I need to gather up some boy clothes, as in I plan on sewing a lot, but very excited about it. I already have plans for cute little sunday outfits out of an old suit that Ben ripped the pants out on, so we are going to have a well dressed little boy.
By the way, how cool is my mom, she got me these snaps that look like buttons, in case I had a boy so that I could make all kinds of button up shirts, without the pain of actually doing buttons on a baby -- I LOVE these snaps, they are so cute!
