Gender Reveal!

Zach and I went to our fourth appointment yesterday, finally! That was the longest 3 weeks ever. It was the ultrasound that we got to know if our little apple had a stem or not .   But before I get into that I have to tell you about the appointment itself.

I woke up around 7, even though my appointment wasn't till 9, I was too anxious to sleep so I did some laundry, homework and just straightened up and then finally it was time to get Zach up. We got to the doctors and were called back into the room.

The gel that they put on your stomach is freezing! But it was way worth it because the last time we got to see our little bean was when it was literally the size of a bean and the moment was surreal. We got to see its little legs, its feet and all 10 toes (whew!). We got to see its heart beating and we got to see it move around as the ultrasound tech chased it around my belly. My little bean did not like the ultrasound Doppler pushing on it, so mostly little bean swam around trying to dodge the pressure which made for an interesting game of cat and mouse.

There were no abnormalities on our little beans ultrasound which we are so grateful for and then came the time for the gender. She asked us if we wanted to know and we said that we did, so she went over little beans legs but then little bean moved and we both thought we saw girl but then the ultrasound tech was able to focus on and he was most definitely not a girl!

So we are happy to announce that little bean can finally have a gender specific name of he =)
We are beyond ecstatic. I always felt that he was a he, even when I would say she it felt off, supposedly there was some thing I was reading that was saying that if the mother has no preference for the gender of her child her intuition is 87.5% right, the fathers is 50% right (duh, everyone is 50 % right) and the grandmother (mom of the daughter) is 25% right, so intuition was correct!

Here are everyone else's guesses:

 Our little countdown to when we got to go and find out if he was a she or he

 Papa and Jill both guessed girl, I just put them on the wrong side...I was bored in one of my classes one day thus this piece of informational paper was born

Zach taking off the last ring as we we head to our appointment!

After the appointment we called my parents and his parents and told my parents because his parents just wanted to wait till later that evening when we did a gender reveal with our friends. For those who don't know what that is, it is just a party thing that lets people know what the gender is of your child. There are tons of ways to go about it, from paint to silly string to cupcakes to balloons. We choose the balloon route.

 Sorry for the shakiness of the camera and the angle, I was trying to get as many people as I could in the shot, but it just kind came out with Em in the middle ! But you can still the see the effect of the balloons popping and the gender confetti spilling out!

 Our little angel, he is so stinkin' cute! I cannot get over it and I admit that I look at this ultrasound picture at least 500 times a day. 

Emilie is so happy to be "Auntie Em"

It was fun to have everyone come over and celebrate with us and it was fun to have my family and Zach's parents over Skype to see this fun little celebration too. 

I really cannot wait to meet my little guy, granted I am so nervous! But I am so excited too, I know this little guy was sent to Zach and I for a reason and that thought calms my nerves because if Heavenly Father trust me then I know I can trust myself to be the momma he needs me to be .

Here are my latest stats:

Pre-symptomatic pregnancy stats:
My weight: 136 lbs.

First Appointment (9 weeks 4 days) stats:
Baby heart beat: 180
My weight 130 lbs.

Second Appointment ( 13 weeks 3 days) stats:
Baby heart beat: 158
My weight: 127 lbs.
My bp: 101/62

Third Appointment (17 weeks 3 days) stats:
Baby heart rate: 153
My weight: 135
My bp: 107/68

Fourth Appointment (20 weeks 3 days) stats:

Baby heart rate: 162 (he was stressed because of the Doppler and moving around a lot so his heart rate went up)

My weight: 145 lbs. (holy earth I fill like I have gained way too much, but neither Zach nor my doctor were concerned, but this is the heaviest I have ever been so bare with me as the numbers go up, I might freak out a little bit more!)

My bp: 113/73

Baby percentile for weight and height: 55%

Baby weight: 14 oz.

Non Baby Talk:

This weekend Zach and I were able to go and participate in a ward camp out. It was so fun but a terrible nights rest. For starters our friend lent us a "two person tent" no no no, maybe if both people were toddlers, so we were extra snuggly that night. Second it is hard enough sleeping in a bed right now and getting comfortable and while I had a memory foam mattress topper to sleep on the night was a very restless one of tossing and turning trying to get comfortable, but overall it was fun to go. 

 We are the only ones kneeling on the ground

We are on the far right side

Farley of course has to be in my post. So Zach and I were outside playing soccer the other day, or really we were just kicking the ball back and forth and Farley was outside watching and one time I chipped it up and Farley went running after it, it was the weirdest thing I had ever seen so of course we took a video of our cat playing soccer 

After Zach and I are gone all day Farley always comes up and snuggles, poor little neglected guy.

And lastly I made these onesies at work this week, the bunny one is for my friend, she is having a little girl the day after me and the fox one is for our little guy. 

Bubbles, Balls and Babies

BUBBLES:
Last Saturday our ward held a party where they provided breakfast and this fun game called "Bumper Balls". If you have never heard of it once you see the pictures it is pretty self explanatory. The point is to be in a big rubber ball and play soccer basically.

Cutest Dork Ever!

BALLS:
Zach has been able to participate in the local club team here again, called the "Dragons", unfortunately they just got a season all put together for this upcoming Fall which is the pits because we will be back East, but it is fun that he can play now anyways.

BABIES:
Since all I talk about is babies I decided to include some pictures and videos of a different kind of baby. My friend just got a new little kitten and asked me to watch her for them. Since I know Lisa would greatly appreciate it I said yes and went and got Lisa.

Farley was overly intrigued by this little kitten but needless to say the kitten was less than enthused. 

Lisa seeing the little kitty for the first time.

And since I can't get through one blog post without posting something related to my little bean, here ya go. 

18 weeks

Little booties I made girly for a friend of ours that is due in August. I added the ribbon and the little blue butterfly button