We are super excited to announce that it's official, it's a BOY!!!No denying this little guy, it was very obvious! =) And talk about the little guy kicking up a storm in there, at times we just had to stop and wait for him to settle down long enough to see anything! AND, he is measuring large! We are positive on my dates and my due date, so it means only one thing, Janzen's giant genes are already kicking in! I'm just hoping I don't end up with a 12-15 pound baby!
What a surprise (not necessarily that it's a boy, because this pregnancy has been sooo different from my others) but that we got to find out the sex today. We weren't expecting it, we actually were going in for a checkup ultrasound because last week I started having contractions and got put in prison, I mean bed rest. =P
Felt like prison!
What a week it's been, I have never been on bed rest and thankfully, sooo thankfully, it's going to end soon. I was starting to loose my mind just a wee little bit. We didn't know if the contractions were going to stop, they were very painful and I'm not a bed rest kinda girl. Not to mention we had just killed our cable (too much garbage on there for us, even some of the kid stations were getting questionable!) and I wasn't in the "movie" mood and Janzen had job interviews and side jobs, so it was hard. But thankfully, some friends took time out of their lives to visit and call which really helped the time go faster!!
A few positives about being on bed rest, I started writing down my thoughts more and got caught up with my journal (Yay, because I have such a hard time getting myself to do that!), I had more time to ponder all the blessings in our lives right now and received a few answers to our prayers, junked out a TON of clothes (if you know me well, you know this is HUGE!), planned quite a few adventures for when I'm NOT on bed rest, re-realized how much I love my family and friends and spent a lot of time talking, giggling and reading to my girls. Having orders to take time and smell the roses can really put things back into perspective!
So far the contractions have slowed quite a bit and almost died out, I'm not on bed rest as much(make sense?) and they think it was an RH factor that was causing everything and that things are going to be just fine now (trust me it would take way to long to explain on here!).
When we had the ultrasound at the beginning of the week and the contractions were coming on strong and everything was up in the air, one of the photos they printed off for us of the ultrasound was the little guy giving us a thumbs up. Have to be honest, I broke down a bit and started sniffle, I thought to myself, what are the odds that they would catch a thumbs up from the baby?? That and previous blessings told my heart that things would be fine.
Today as soon as we were told it's a boy, Allana immediately said "Well, great, what are we going to name him? I only have girl names!!" So most of tonight has been spent going through all of Allana's boy names... from Tony to Coda, Turkey, Hot Dog, Mighty Baby and so forth.. it's been too darn cute. As far as Sarina in concerned.. well she's still telling me that the baby "Really, really, really..... in MY belly!".
So now that I am having a boy it's like having a first baby all over again! I have baby girl bedding, toys, clothes and everything else under the sun... but no boy things. So if anyone has any boy clothes they are willing to part with, send them my way please! =)
Thanks everyone for all of your thoughts, prayers and concerns. We love you all! =)
Today we had an ultrasound of Baby Eli because the doctors were concerned he was measuring so big and they wanted to get a better idea of how large he is. He is weighing in at 8lbs right now and I am only 35 weeks along. Gonna be a big baby! =)
Sarina, not wanting her photo taken! I sure hope this is a faze! It drives me crazy!
