It's (Going To Be...) a BOY!

It's official -- Wee is a He Wee! So he can be Cooper's best friend and Delaney's boyfriend, and Chris can have a few more years off from worrying about who his daughter is out with.

Our appointment was Friday afternoon, and I came prepared with both Chris (so that I could stop having to imitate the sound of Wee's heartbeat) and a Coke (so we could rudely stir Wee into action in case he was being modest). We told the sonographer (that should be a word, if it isn't...) that we did want to know if Wee was a boy or a girl but that we didn't want to find out right then. At the end of the sonogram, she had us close our eyes so she could take a picture and put it in an envelope for us to open later. Fortunately, she labelled it "Boy!" because even when we looked at the picture at dinner that night, there was still no telling to our untrained eyes. Knowing that it was a boy made us say, "Maybe that's it?" about lots of parts of the picture.

I thought we might get some action out of Wee during the photo shoot since he was poking me in the waiting room, but the boy sleeps like his father and was passed out again 5 minutes later in the sonogram room. He started out on his back and curled into a little ball, which was cute but not making it easy for the sonogram lady to find any of the stuff she was looking for (organs, not just "parts"), so she took the sonogram wand and bounced my stomach around to get him to wake up! It worked but also made me feel nauseous and gave Wee the hiccups, poor little guy... Once he was up and moving, she could find what she needed -- the little chambers of his heart and his little brain and his stomach and some other stuff. She took several cute / non-medical pictures for us, which we've scanned and added in the Photos section. She said Wee looked like a healthy baby -- had all the stuff he should have at that point (even bones -- because I eat so much cheese, no?). He measured a few days smaller than they thought he would be, but they don't adjust due dates unless the change is more than 2 weeks -- plus, he might always catch up later.

To tell the grandparents-to-be, we bought Wee his first "obviously a boy" outfit over the weekend and layed the clothes out when we saw everyone over Christmas. I guess I should have taken a picture of that, too, but forgot!