It's a BOY!

Okay, okay, I know this is a little late coming . . .  and I hope that the delay in posting about the ultrasound does not give the impression that it has ANYTHING to do with a lack of excitement about having A BOY!  Really, it has a lot more to do with me having been too lazy to scan the images so that I can post them.

Jeff had to work on the day of the ultrasound so he was not able to come.  I have been feeling like it is a boy since pretty early on in the pregnancy.  Partly because it has been EASY-GOING so far with very little morning sickness & fatigue.  Anyway, so as Bobbi, our ultrasound tech, was searching around for possible boy-parts, she stopped and it was pretty obvious, even to me.  After getting a couple good looks she made the "official" call that it was a boy and I would be lying if I said that I didn't raise my arms up in a "V" for victory and proclaim that I had been right.  It's hard to explain, but as I've struggled trying to get and stay pregnant, there have been many days, weeks, and months that I have lost faith and trust in my own body.  Even though I know that millions of women go through it and many of my close friends have and are struggling with the same thing, there definitely is a sense of being betrayed by my own body.  So, for me to FEEL something about my body and this pregnancy and have it BE RIGHT was a pretty great moment.  Silly?  Probably.  She also took a quick look at his heart, etc. and said that from what she could see, everything looked good.  We go in next week for the full-on-check-everything-out ultrasound, and hopefully Jeff will have someone to cover his class this time.

Before we knew whether it was a boy or a girl, Jeff has been pretty sure that he only wants 2 kids.  If this one was a girl, I had said "yes" to just having 2, but if it was a boy, I told him that I couldn't agree to that because I want Elea to have a sister.  My sister has been my lifeline on many a dark day before I was married and on many an I'm-about-to-lose-my-mind day since becoming a Mommy, so I don't know that I can send my little girl out into the world without a sister (even if I am the most fabulous, coolest, amazing wonder of a mom out there).  So up until we found it was a boy, Jeff had his mind set that it was a girl.

After the ultrasound, I bought some blue "it's a boy" balloons and took them to his office at work.  I was hoping to just take them to him in the gym, but his class was meeting with the counselors that day.  His mom came with me and last minute we decided to hide behind a file cabinet so that we could watch his reaction in the big mirror without him knowing we were there.  When he saw the balloons he starting laughing and said, "No way," and just kept laughing, shaking his head.  He looked really excited and totally surprised.  I was glad to be able to see his reaction without him knowing I was there, otherwise I would be wondering if his reaction was genuine, or put on for my benefit.  We talked for just a few minutes before leaving and he just kept laughing.  Later that night he exclaimed, "I'm going to have a son!" it was pretty fun to watch it sink in for him.

We're naming him Clayne Jeffrey, CJ for short.  Here are the ultrasounds- 16 weeks 4 days.  Some of them are a little thrashed because at least once a day Elea wants to "look at baby" and then carries the strip of ultrasound pictures around with her for awhile.

I'm hoping that his buddha/meditation pose means that he is going to be calm & serene . . . and/or very patient.  The dark diamond shape on the top of his head is his soft spot, pretty cool huh?