Growing, Growing, Growing!

We had so much fun meeting our little one again! They were dancing around like nobody's business! The ultrasound tech was fantastic! She was actually the head tech there and took her time and had a great open personality, which made it a lot of fun! Our little one gave us some great pics as keepsakes!

If you look by the little one's mouth, you can count it's fingers as it has its hand up by its mouth! We got to count lots of fingers and toes!

This one is my favorite picture! You can see the nose and the face quite clearly. Down along the bottom, you can see the arm with the little hand by the bum, and then the leg curled up along the top!

I love this one too! It was just rolling over and it had it's elbow up in the air as it was rubbing its face!

This one is is cool because you can see the spine and the heart so clearly. The little heart was just flickering away...it was doing lots of stretching in there, so it's neck was being stretched back!

I know I keep saying this, but this is one of my favorites too! If you look at the face, you can see the lips pursed! The little one was practicing its suckling a lot and here we caught it mid motion with its lips all cute and pursed!

Now, it was a great ultrasound, and we went in sure we were going to prove to ourselves that we were having a little girl, but SURPRISE...

We are so excited to announce that we are having a BOY!

It was clear as day, no questions! The tech even said she rarely says that she's sure, but she said - "I'm 100% sure - this little one is a boy!" We were able to see the umbilical cord elsewhere and there was no mistaking as you can see from the two last pictures, that our little treasure is a bouncing, bubbling, baby BOY!

We both spent the ultrasound and the rest of the night laughing because we were truly convinced (along with 90% of everyone else!) that we were having a girl! This was the greatest surprise - as we had no preference - and the curve ball is a treat! Still this morning, we will both sometimes break into giggles when it crosses our mind! What a wonderful memory!

As for the details...the heartbeat was a healthy 132 bpm. The placenta is in a good place and isn't lying too low. We got to count fingers and toes! The hemmorhages are still there and are located on the lower far end of the placenta, but have not grown. We are still experiencing some of the annoying symptoms, but knowing they aren't growing is comforting! When baby was poked, it responded - which we were told showed good reflexes!

It was so fun to get a glimpse inside! We are so happy with our choice to find the gender out! We are excited that we are over halfway there to meeting our little guy!

Next Big Milestone: We scheduled our 3-d ultrasound for mid-March and can't wait to get a cool glimpse at the little man!

Enjoy your weekends and the great surprise!!!

XOXOX