Week 21 - It's a boy!

My wife had the idea that it'd be nice to wait until Christmas before telling our parents the sex of our child. She told her parents that we couldn't tell from the sonogram what it is. I told my parents that she had said they'd have to wait. Needless to say, my mother was a bit upset about not knowing. She didn't think it was fair to tease her like this. My wife's mother reads this blog and as a result realized that she had been lied to. So, for the last week, my wife's parents and sister as well as my parents have been hounding us. This morning, Christmas Eve, we gave a present to my wife's parents. It was a blue bib on which is written "Thank Heaven for Little Boys." This is how we let her parents know. We'll do the same with my parents tomorrow afternoon, Christmas day. Here is the telling picture of our baby boy.




I'm not sure if I'd recommend making everyone wait to find out unless you don't tell them that you are doing a sonogram in the first place.

Sonogram at 19 weeks and 5 days

Friday, we went for a doctor's visit. We had the sonogram done. Everything looks great. It is the appropriate size for its age. We'll be posting some more revealing sonogram pictures at Christmas.

The Amazing Gene Machine

Last Saturday night, we went to the Ripley's Museum in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. There, they have what is called a "gene machine". Each parent enters the photo booth to take their picture. Somehow it merges the photos and re-adjusts the facial structure a bit. The result is supposed to be what your children will look like. These are our future children. Cute, huh?

A friend loses their baby at 4 months...

A co-worker of my wife was pregnant and due at almost the same time as us. She started bleeding on Friday at an office Christmas party. On Monday, we learned that she lost her baby. She was 4 months pregnant. My wife was very upset by this. We'd thought we were past the roughest part of the pregnancy. I think that this may make her doubt whether or not everything will be okay. I'm not sure what caused the co-worker's loss. However, I'm trying my best to keep my wife optimistic. We do our ultrasound on Friday. This will hopefully put us at ease.
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A few days later, our friend said, "Its hard to say goodbye when you've never met." They named the baby. A funeral plot was donated by a local cemetery.