It's a.......

We didn't want to find out the gender of this baby. Really I was the one that didn't want to find out, but my husband was sweet enough to go along with the plan. I figured we have all the major baby stuff we need in fairly neutral colors so we'd be set on everything except for clothes if we had a boy. When in life do you really get a good surprise?

So fast forward to almost 20 weeks into our pregnancy...that is almost halfway mind you, and we went to have our ultrasound. I had a friend do it so I knew I could trust her work and not have to double check what she was seeing on the scan. So I told her I wanted to see the heart views but nothing else, just wanted to see for my own eyes that everything looked good....So I closed my eyes or looked away from the screen the entire scan until she said it was ok to look. She started doing the heart and said ok you can look, she got all the normal images, all looked great and then for some crazy reason she scans down to look at the cord, well I saw what was clearly the gender....she said "all you see is cord" so Jason wouldn't wonder what the heck he was looking at. At that point she didn't know that I had seen the gender. I was totally bummed that I had made it so long without knowing and saw what it was on accident, and I didn't know quite what to do. Jason didn't know that I saw what it was either, and I stewed all night wondering what to do, should I keep it a secret and act surprised when it comes out - no way in heck that was going to happen! So the next day I made a cake and filled it with gender specific colored frosting and when he got home I told him that I saw the gender on accident and that he could find out if he wanted, he just had to cut the cake....of course he wanted to know! So he dove in and.....

IT"S A BOY!!!

We're so excited, but really would have been happy either way. Now we have to switch our minds out of pink mode and into boy mode! We're very happy and can't wait to meet our little one in August!

Proud daddy enjoying his BLUE filled cake!

Ultrasound Pics

Here are some ultrasound photos from our little one's scan a couple weeks ago. All looks great. Baby is healthy and growing like a champ...our gender reveal story to come later. :)

Profile and shoulders

4 chamber heart

Little piggies

There are really 5 fingers there! :)

The "Lord Voldemort Face" as Jason calls it.

Face and eyes

Zoo Train

Ella loves everything train related! We have two sets of railroad tracks near our house so we hear trains all the time....the girl is obsessed with them! "Ella ride choo-choo" is a daily request at our house. So we took her to the zoo to do just that, ride the choo-choo. She loved everything about the ride and was quite disappointed when the ride was over!

Fashion Forward

Ella's got a new look, it's inspired by Mrs. Potato Head! :)

Krispy Kreme Visit

We had a hankering for doughnuts....ok well maybe the pregnant one in the house had a hankering, anyway, we made our way to Krispy Kreme for a visit. Ella enjoyed watching the doughnuts being made, but more than that she enjoyed running in circles up and down the step they provide so little kids can see the doughnuts going by.

She got her own hat (which was cherished for days), and a tasty doughnut treat to enjoy of course!

Snow Day

Bundled and Ready For A Walk

Here are a few pictures of the miniature snow day we had a while back. We had maybe 2 inches on the ground and they canceled school all around us - so silly! It was Ella's first time seeing the snow though, so we had to get out an play in it a bit. We took a walk to a nearby park, and she enjoyed running in it, although she tried to pick some up and wasn't happy when it stuck to her gloves. She called it "dirt".


We had hot chocolate to warm up with when we came home, she LOVED that part of our snow day!

No More Bottles

A couple of months ago we made the big girl leap to using only cups instead of bottles too. It was a long time coming but we finally got Ella to stop drinking milk from her bottles. We told her that Anna and Cody's new baby (in the making) needed her bottles. We bought her a bunch of new sippy cups as a trade. If she handed over her bottles then she got a pretty wrapped box just for her....well she grudgingly agreed and put the bottles in a bag herself and then gave them to Anna & Cody.

"I'm not very happy about this!"

She really didn't mind the switch nearly as much as we thought she would. She's been drinking water or juice from a cup for a very long time, she just won't drink milk from them. Well, not much has changed, she still won't drink milk from her cup unless her arm is twisted....calcium
supplements here we come! :)