Ta Da...

Well...I've hit 18 1/2 weeks already! It seems like forever long, but yet so fast that we're already at this point! Anyway, I'm for the most part feeling pretty good, however I've continued to have headaches everyday still. Thank goodness for Excedrin Tension Headache!

We had our ultrasound appointment today. Everything looked good and healthy, which we are grateful for. I had originally wanted to make this one a surprise, but this last week I've been worried that if I kept it a surprise and we had the baby and it happened to be a girl, that at the hospital I would be upset that it was a girl and feel guilty as a mother to be upset about my baby girl. So I asked the ultrasound tech to put the answer in an envelope so I could have the opportunity to find out if I felt I needed to. Well, Nick thought it would last until the end of the night and I have to say he was wrong as it only lasted for about 4 hours until I gave in. When in the ultrasound room, Kayley said it was a boy because the baby didn't have any hair. Well.....

She was right...but not because of the no hair thing, but luckily that is what she still thinks for now!! :) We are excited and to be honest a bit relieved, however let the record show that we both would have been ok with a girl, it may just have taken me a bit longer to be ok with the idea of it. Now I have to get over the fact that we are actually having a boy, which means a total change of scenery for us! Oh well, we are excited either way!

Pictures of our boy

Well, with all the excitement of finding out it was a boy the other day, I forgot to post pictures of his actual ultrasound. There are not any "boy" pictures as obviously the ultrasound tech just put the answer in an envelope so the pictures she gave us wouldn't give us any clue about the gender...which, I think makes them a bit more lop-sided than normal baby ultrasound pics, but anyway, here they are.

Typical front profile here on the left and then the right is a side profile with an emphasis on his baby belly!

This group is my favorite group, the one on the left looks kind of funny cause he was just caught at a bad angle and then the one on the right looks like he's scratching his head trying to figure out what we are doing to him.

Then here are some more side profile pics on the left and a pic of his backside on the right, which I don't ever remember having of the girls...I guess of the spine. Also, I didn't get a pic of it, but the tech was able to show us a picture of one of his ears, it was funny cause it already for sure had Nick's shape of ear. Funny that at such a small age and being so small...he was only 10 ounces...he's already just like his Daddy! :) We are so excited to have a boy, but I'm still in a bit of shock that we're having a boy! Now I have to get boy toys like trucks and things for him otherwise this kid will have a complex playing with all our princess stuff in this house! :)