It's a Boy!

Ryan and I went to my ultrasound today and found out that our third baby is going to be a boy!  We really would have been happy either way, but I'm a little more excited about a boy because that's what I thought all along and it feels good to be right.  :)  I love getting ultrasounds, especially anatomy ones where they go around and look at the heart and everything.  I think it's amazing what we can see and how the technicians know what is a stomach and what is a kidney.  And it's pretty incredible seeing the baby move around in there.  This little guy is very active and I feel him moving constantly so I wasn't surprised that he wouldn't cooperate for pictures.  Every time she got ready to take pictures of his spine or head or something, he would wiggle away and she'd have to go find him again.  It was pretty funny.

Everything is always so much clearer when you're in there and then you get out and look at the pictures they print and it's all just a bunch of blobs.  These are some of the least blobby pictures.

I thought this one was pretty cool.  You can see his back, bum, leg, and foot.  His legs looked pretty muscular - I think it's from all that kicking he's been doing.

And for those of you that like this sort of picture, the proof!

We couldn't be more thrilled!  It's exciting to know the gender and be able to start figuring out names and getting all the right color clothes out of the storage tubs.  Lucas is excited about a baby brother and is insistent that we name the baby right away.  Every time I ask him what he wants to name the baby, though, he suggests things like "house" and "chair".  We'll have to think about it a little longer.