It's a.....

on our way to THE ultrasound.. which will it be?
Boy or Girl?
(notice Sandi's snout, she is very curious about those tiny clothes!)

BOY!

At an on-base garage sale last weekend, I bought one boy and one girl onesie ($1 each)...
This is the boy one, notice the train, for Nolan, who was a fan of trains as a child...

Boy parts...
(1 of 3 pictures we have) ;-)

We are both just THRILLED! :-) And the best part is that he looks like he is developing well; his due date is still December 26th.

The ultrasound was so amazing! The tech was so very knowledgeable and more than happy to answer all of our "what's that?" questions, as well as explain what and why she was looking for/at certain parts. It was crazy that pretty much the first swipe across my belly and there were his boy parts! ;-) You could see the chambers of his little heart going, which was especially cool because our first ultrasound, at 7 weeks 4 days, the heart beating blob was pretty much all we could see. If I recall correctly, his heart rate today was 144 bpm. We also saw his kidneys, spine, umbilical cord, bladder, fingers and toes... The tech did a lot of measuring of body parts; his femur, his head, etc. and he was measuring right around his due date for them all... :-) Grow Baby Grow!

Here are a few of the ultrasound pictures that we got today and because he was using both hands to cover his face (a part of the body they like to look at for possible cleft palate and such) we get to see him again on the 30th of August! :-) After 40 minutes of being looked at he was quite squirmy and was not letting us see his face, but it was fun to see him moving all of his limbs at one time in response to all of the attention he was getting... I think he was getting a bit frustrated by it all... haha

He is a flexible little guy, that is his foot above his forehead!

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(that's the best she could get; he was quite squirmy)

Doing his best to keep us from seeing his face... both hands! and you can see his little femur and knee

I wish I could say we have a named picked out for our little guy, but unfortunately we don't, yet. We will start working on that! ;-) haha For now he has gone from "it" / "the baby" to "he."

Once again, Nolan's squadron made it possible for him to go to the ultrasound with me - Whoop to that! He has worked 13 of the past 14 days, so the whole squadron is running in high gear, but to be able to move him to a late work day makes it possible for him to go with me!

The Naval Hospital continues to exceed our expectations; even though they were running an hour behind today (the first time yet!). We are truly blessed to have such great medical care that comes with Nolan being in the military.

As for me personally, my morning sickness has been gone for the past 6 weeks! Thankful for that!
Physically, pregnancy has been easy on my body so far, I have missed a good night's sleep on my stomach and back lately, and the round ligament pains from everything stretching out are slowing down, so all in all I hope the last 5 months of the pregnancy are as good as the first 5!

Until next time...