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Well, we had our second ultrasound today of baby #2 and we are happy to announce that we're having a... BOY!!  And he wasn't shy about it!  :)  What fun it will be to have two little boys running around the house.  Daniel seems to be excited about it.  He's adjusting to saying "brother" now because almost every time we asked him if he wanted a baby brother or a baby sister he would say "sister"!  And we are super excited that Daniel will have a playmate close to him in age.  Of course, they may bother each other some of the time, but hopefully they will also enjoy playing together most of the time!

This ultrasound was really neat for us to see.  With Daniel, when we had the second ultrasound, the tech really didn't tell us anything about what she was doing or looking at or looking for.  But with this child the tech was really great and walked us through the entire thing showing us all the limbs, spine, ribs, heart, kidneys, face, everything!  It was so neat to see our little boy this way.  We did have a 4D ultrasound (they just switch it to the 4D at the end and do all the other stuff in the regular format).  We were hoping to get a glimpse of our little boy's face as we were able to do so with Daniel.  However, this little one was very uncooperative!  He had his arms crossed over his face the entire time and refused to move even though he was wiggling and we tried shifting positions and prodding him and everything!  Oh well.

We haven't been able to scan the pictures from this ultrasound yet.  but I do have the picture from our first ultrasound at 10 weeks so I'll at least put that one up so you can see, and hopefully we'll be able to get the others scanned soon...

You know it really is something to be able to know ahead of time if you're having a boy or a girl.  It creates anticipation in a different way than when the baby's gender is a surprise.  You only have to come up with one name. :)  And you can name your child before they are born.  I'm a planner and so I guess I like all that :)  Now the real preparation begins... moving Daniel into a new room and a big boy bed and getting the nursery ready for this little one!