It's a Boy!!

I finally talked Dave into letting me make an appointment for a 3D sonogram. I really wanted to surprise our families on Thanksgiving with the news of "It's a boy" or "It's a girl". So this past Tuesday, Dave, Madison and I secretly went to Babies 1st Image to have a sonogram. It was the coolest experience. They have a huge screen that you get to watch the baby on.

I told the lady doing the sonogram that I wanted us to guess what sex the baby was before she told us. So she got the baby in the right position on the screen and I knew immediately that it was a boy. His "package" was hard to miss!! The pictures turned out really well and I look at them several time a day and think, "That is my son!!"

So on Wednesday before Thanksgiving we went to my parent's cabin to spend the night. I wanted to wait and tell them on Thursday because my whole family wasn't there yet. It was extremely hard to not spill the news, especially to my mom. But I held it in.

Thursday we went down to Ellijay to have lunch with Dave's family. As soon as everyone was there, Dave put the DVD in and told them we had something we wanted them to watch. We let them watch the video and also guess what they thought the sex was. It was unanimously, BOY.

After lunch, we went back up to my parent's cabin and I waited until the right time and went upstairs to put on the shirt that I had made that said, "It's a boy". I came down and went into the living room and just stood there waiting for someone to notice my shirt. Finally, my brother did and then my dad. My sister-in-law came running in from the kitchen. My mom still had no clue was was going on so we all went into the kitchen. I just stood in front of her and smiled. Everyone was behind me watching. She stood there for a minute wondering why everyone was staring at her. Then finally, her eyes connected with my shirt and she screamed. It was a a really fun way to share the wonderful news about our precious little boy.

So here are a few pics/video clip of our handsome little man and some updated pics of my baby bump: Sweet little profile

Look at that little face- I think he already looks like his daddy!!

Looks like he's sucking his thumb

His boy parts

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