20 week ultrasound

Yesterday (Friday March 9th) I had my 20 week ultrasound at 9:00 in the morning. We've been looking forward to this day for quite some time. Especially Caleb. He's been DYING to know whether he's getting a brother or a sister. So anyway, we took him to school and dropped Angie off at Tresa's house and then went straight to the doctor. The ultrasound tech. started by asking us if we wanted to know the sex of the baby. Um.....YES. We'd considered letting it be a surprise, but Parker agreed that it's a surprise either way, and at least this way we're able to be a little prepared. If it's a girl....we're set. If it's a boy.....well, lets just say that all my baby boy stuff never made it back to me. I lent quite a few clothes out to friends and family, and I've got nothing really. Even if they HAD made it back to me, who knows what kind of condition it all would have been in. Oh well. Yes we wanna know. So she starts out with the typical ultrasound stuff, and then decides to see if she can get a body shot with 3D imagery. The SECOND picture (below) is what we saw first.
She says, "Well....I'm glad you want to know the sex of the baby, because THERE IT IS!" As it turns out, we're having a BOY. And with this picture, there is NO QUESTION. Later when the doctor came in, he said that these were some of the best ultrasound pictures he'd ever seen. And the second 3D image......well he said THAT picture could be used as an advertisement for the ultrasound machine they used. He was pretty surprised at the level of detail we were able to get for an ultrasound of only 20 weeks. He said that usually you get pictures like that around 26 weeks, but this was unique for sure.

Anyway....we're glad to be having another boy. I've definately got some shopping to do, but I don't think I'll mind too much ;). When we told Caleb- he got a smile from ear to ear. He kinda blushed for a second, and then said, "I KNEW IT! I was RIGHT!" He was just so happy. I wish we would have taken a video of when we told him, but I didn't even think about it until after it happened. Oh well. It was cute, and it made my day just to be able to tell him that he got his wish.

Family of five here we come....