The big reveal

We are 2/3 sick over here and blah.  Mr. Silly has managed to avoid it, but I’m not expecting that to last.  Smushy is on day 4 and I’m on day 2.  Obviously all her fault.  It’s not the flu or plague or anything, just a cold, but it’s yucky and Smush can’t blow her nose which makes it harder on her.  Poor little thing.  She crawls into our bed in the middle of the night, but at least she’s nice enough to just cuddle up and go back to sleep.  Mostly.

So that’s why I didn’t update yesterday.  We feel like poop.

And now, the fun stuff.  The ultrasound was supposed to be a quick 10 minute gender peek, but it ended up being 45 minutes since this baby is a little booger.  When she first put the probe to my belly, I saw the 3 lines and immediately said, “It’s a girl.”  The lady wasn’t so sure, so she jiggled me and made me go pee and turn this way and that.  Apparently what I had seen was the vessels in the cord which was running straight between the legs.  So after lots of squishing and prodding, we saw this:

After thinking it was a girl the whole time, I don’t think either of us really believed it’s a boy. We didn’t have that huge excited moment, but it’s come in doses since then. Things keep occurring to me. Like girl names I won’t be able to use, or my favorite girl clothes from Smushy that I won’t get to see again. Or the fact that I get to buy blue things this time and how I never even looked at the boy stuff before. And how Smushy can still be my favorite girl and won’t have to share that title with anyone.

People keep asking if Mr. Silly is excited. It makes me giggle since he wanted a girl. Not that he doesn’t want a boy, but as he says, “I have a girl, so I already know them.” But he is happy about not having to be the only boy in a house full of girls. I think we were both just really expecting a girl. We’ve done the baby thing. We feel a lot more relaxed and prepared going into it this time. The whole shock of having a boy makes us both feel like newbies. I think it’ll definitely take some getting used to.

Mostly we’re having good reactions. I keep having these OMGITSABOY!!! moments. It’s exciting in a way I don’t think it could have been had this been a girl. There are so many things I’m nervous about and looking forward too. It’s been hard to get completely into this pregnancy since I honestly don’t have a lot of free time to daydream, but this makes it more real. There is an actual person in there. I am going to have a son. Whoa.

PS. The belly yesterday after the u/s. And keep in mind, I am siiiiiiiiiiiick.