Our little one is a little man

 Our excitement for this little boy had grown bigger than we ever anticipated. Here are a few of our thoughts on having this little man join our family. 

This first half of pregnancy I was never set on having one gender or the other. All I really wanted was a healthy baby. I had thoughts that I wanted a little girl because it would be cheaper due to the fact that we would get a bunch of hand-me-downs from friends and family but that was about it. But when my thoughts turned to having a little boy it seemed more realistic to me. I could picture our little family with a little boy not a little girl. The weeks leading up to our appointment I told Daniel over and over that I thought it was a little boy. The more I said it out loud the more I hoped that it would be. When the ultrasound showed that our little one was a boy my heart just filled with so much excitement and love for him. I know that this little guy is meant to be the next member of our family and my want to meet him tripled when I saw his little body in that fuzzy black and white picture. These next few months are going to be torture waiting for our little boy to make his entrance into this world but until then I'm just going to enjoy his constant acrobatics in my stomach.

Whoa! Is this really happening? I'm having a baby BOY!! YES!! I remember that it wasn't too long ago that I was just a punk kid wreaking havoc for my mother. Skipping school, paint-balling the neighbors cat, and other such punk-like things, and my mother would always tell me "I hope you have a kid that's just like you, so you can experience what I'm going through". Now's my chance to live the life that was foretold by my mother. and to be honest I CAN'T WAIT! My anxiety overtakes me sometimes when I think of Tonka trucks and training wheels, of nap time and nasty diapers. Yet at times I still feel like my former High School self who's got that up-to-no-good look on my face when I think of my boy and I wreaking havoc on my mother yet again.