photos {the big reveal}

Today was our first ultrasound, and ultimately…The Big Reveal! We picked Spencer up from school and headed to our 3:00 appointment. The ultrasound was first and it was just awesome to see the baby in there, moving around. There was a lot of activity (possibly due to the Dr. Pepper I intentionally drank before hand). The ultrasound nurse was really great and showed us so much. She pointed out everything they look for and measure. She printed a ton of pictures and recorded a DVD. We told her we wanted her to seal the gender in an envelope for us. Here is our baby:

Next we met with Dr. Garcia and he took us through all of the important ultrasound photos as well. He was wonderful at explaining even more about them – what signs they look for when it comes to certain issues, and reassuring us that our baby seemed quite healthy. Even though the computer had measured me at only 17 weeks and 3 days, Dr. Garcia decided not to change my due date.

After a couple of very long hours, we met Chip, Sherry, Bo & Teddy for dinner at Red Bowl. With Teddy on video duty, we had Spencer open the envelope for the big reveal. It took him a minute to figure out where it was written on there, but he finally found it. And then he announced to all of us (with Michelle on speaker phone) that IT’S A BOY!!! You can see the video of the reveal here or it should show up at the bottom of this post. Here is the photo that *supposedly* proves we're having a boy.

Later we took our first official family photo. We made tons of phone calls that evening sharing our news with friends and family!!

Here is the video of "The Big Reveal"