WOOOO!!! I”m so excited to announce that my husband and I are having a little BOY!
Our hearts can hardly contain our excitement
I can’t believe it! A little boy!! My husband and I both thought we were for sure having a little girl. When we went to our 18 week anatomy scan, I double, triple asked the doctor to make sure he was actually a he! And guess what? We have a sweet little boy. I can hardly believe it.
All my friends who have boys says they are the sweetest with their mamas, so I am thrilled. Honestly, we are just so, so grateful to have a healthy baby – we didn’t really care what the gender was! We have just been enjoying every minute of this pregnancy and thanking our lucky stars for his {and my!} good health.
HOW WE FOUND OUT
My husband was dead set on us not finding out the gender, but I just knew I needed to know. After a few discussions, I finally won him over and he agreed to find out gender on *one* condition: he didn’t want to do a big gender reveal party. He wanted it to be just the two of us, and honestly, I was soo ok with that! Believe it or not, I really don’t like to be the center of attention, and a gender reveal party never really felt like ‘me’ anyway – so I was happy to oblige!
The Saturday morning that we decided to find out {we had our doctor put the gender in an envelope} we slept in, went for a walk with the dogs and got coffee. We were both relaxed and just happy – neither or us felt stressed or rushed. We wanted to just enjoy the moment – the last few hours and minutes before our lives would change forever! With the sun shinning for the first time in what felt like weeks, and with a fresh coffee in hand, we were ready! The day was already perfect.
When we got home, I set up my camera, and had two poppers waiting out for us {my assistant had come by earlier that week and taken a peek at the doctors note, and set aside the correct color poppers}. I hit record and we got ourselves ready. We were both nervous and excited, and on the count of three – we popped the poppers! BOY!!! We couldn’t believe it when the confetti came out blue!!!! We were so shocked and excited and just stared at each other in disbelief! A boy!? How were we both wrong? We still don’t know why we were both so sure it was a girl – but it just made the surprise that much more exciting!! We immediately called my parents, and then my sister who were all thrilled. Next, we drove over to my in-laws where we shared the news with them in person. It was truly the best day!!
Ever since, I’ve slowly gotten used to calling ‘it’ a ‘him’ when referring to the sweet little baby growing in my stomach. I can’t wait to be a boy mom! If you have any boy mom tips let me know in the comments! I am clueless!! And feel free to ask any questions 🙂 We are so excited to share this news with you all! 🙂 xx
photos: Mary Hafner