Confetti reveal

Monday, February 23rd was our 20 week Ultrasound.  We had to reschedule our appointment due to Dan's work and some sort of miscommunication on the hospitals end, but we finally made a day and time work.  I was anxious to find out what we were having. 

 Initially I was on the fence about finding out the gender.  But at my 17 week appointment my doctor had trouble listening to the baby's heart beat, due to my heart beat taking over, so he did an ultrasound to get the heartbeat and he randomly asked me if I wanted to know the gender if he could find out.  I blurted out, "Yes!"  (Apparently my self control is not as good as I thought.)  But as it turned out, the umbilical cord was in the way and he couldn't tell.  That was probably a good thing because Dan wasn't with me and I am sure he would have been a bit disappointed.  In fact, I know he would have been.  I teased him and told him that I had found out the gender.  And he couldn't believe that I knew and he didn't. He was dying to know.  I drew it out as long as I could (which wasn't long at all because I can't keep things from him), but then confessed to him that I was just kidding.  He was such a good sport.  

After that experience, I couldn't NOT find out.  I was so close, and still didn't know.  Dan was relieved since he wanted to find out the whole time.  So, the morning of the 23rd we found out.  Dan and I were able to go to the appointment alone.  Alayna was in school and my visiting teacher offered to watch Brylen.  As for guesses whether it was a boy or girl, our family was divided.  Half thought girl (Alayna and Dan) and half thought boy (Brylen and me).

We agreed to wait until Alayna got out of school to tell the girls.  I decided to put confetti in balloons in coordinating colors of the gender.  I first blew up some empty balloons and had them practice popping them with pins, so they knew what to expect.  My girls don't like loud noises, especially Alayna, so I figured a practice round would be in our favor.  Then I told them the real balloons would have confetti in them.  It would be pink and purple if the baby was a girl or blue and green if it was a boy.  

Here they are ready to go.  They were so excited to find out!

They had strict instructions to pop them at the same time, but a certain two year old just couldn't help herself and popped her balloon first.  

So, I told Alayna to hurry and pop hers!

Aaaannnnd.....

IT'S A BOY!!!!!

We still can't believe it, but it was evident SEVERAL times during the ultrasound that he is indeed a BOY!  About 30 seconds into the ultrasound, the tech confirmed that we were having a boy and I think ever since then, we have been a bit in shock.  Boys are foreign to us.  We are curious to see who he will look like and how he fits into our family, but we are super excited!  The girls are thrilled to have a baby brother.  They love talking about him and can't wait until summer time.

The color blue, trucks, cars, airplanes, trains, cowboys, bowties, buzz cuts, and boy names have been occupying my mind.  I can't wait to start my little baby boy projects (I already have one done.)!

And speaking of names. It's been harder than I thought.  We're still in search for the name we LOVE, but we have several that we like a lot.  If you remember, we have to see our babies before we can settle on a name, so we usually take a list of three to four names with us to the hospital.  

Here's to little baby BOYS and all their cuteness!!!!