The baby is a...!!!

Four weeks ago at my 17 week doctors appointment the doctor did a surprise in office ultrasound. I was there with my mom and we were so excited to find out the baby's gender! I had thought that I would have to wait a few more weeks until my anatomy scan to find out. The baby was all curled up in my uterus and it was hard to get a good shot of the goods but after a minute or so baby moved its little legs and doctor said "it's a GIRL!" (he was about 85% confident). 85% was good enough for me. I believe when I was pregnant with Maddie they had had about the same confidence level and with William I could for sure see his boy parts half way down his little legs. My mom and I went to the store and bought a little girl outfit and wrapped it up. Luke came home on his lunch break and he and the kids opened up the sweet little "Daddy's ballerina" outfit.

Later that night Luke's family came over and I decided to make a gender reveal cake. I have been looking at so many blogs of cute gender reveal ideas that I just wanted to do them all! My cake didn't look very pretty but the family was excited to find out it was a little girl. (And it tasted delicious)

About two weeks later when my whole extended family was in Minnesota we decided to do a little gender reveal party to tell my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. We decorated cookies, made a beautiful sign (mostly done by my talented sister Kathryn), and bought pink balloons and put them in a tote to open up in front of everyone.

Luke and I (ok mostly me) began shopping and bought a pink play yard, some pink outfits, bibs, and sweet little girl baby book. Fast forward to yesterday and it was time for my official anatomy scan to see our baby again and "Confirm the gender". Even though in my mind the 85% had turned into 100%. I lied down and they ultrasound tech started looking at our cute little babe. The brain looked good, the heart looked good, ten fingers, ten toes. Then she moved on to between the baby's little legs. We told her that the doctor told us it was a girl at our last appointment and she said, "It's not the first time I've proved the doctors wrong." WHAT?!?!?!?! Up on the screen between the little legs was unmistakable boy parts.

I was shocked, to say the least. Even though I saw the parts with my own eyes I could hardly believe it. She went back to the little parts a few times to convince me and she said she was 100% sure it was a boy and she has been doing this for 6 years and hasn't been wrong. I couldn't focus for the rest of the appointment and was just shocked. Don't get me wrong, I am SO excited to have another sweet baby boy but I was already becoming attached to the baby being a girl, now it feels like it's a completely different baby inside me. I know it's the same sweet babe and has been a boy the entire time. I love him so much I'm just glad he's healthy! Now I get to return the things I've bought and start stocking up on little boy stuff. I'm glad Maddie and Will are so easy going. They were excited for a girl but are excited for a boy too. Will just said, "Cool, now we know it'll play video games with me" I'm so excited to meet my little BOY and enjoy the rest of my pregnancy. :-)