Gender Reveal Party

After some dear friends of our had a gender reveal party a couple years ago, I'd been thinking about having one for our own little one. So, we had the not-so-friendly ultrasound technician place the gender revealing sonogram picture into an envelope and I delivered it to our dear friend Dorothy who had been planning a gender reveal cake for a couple months. Since we've called the baby Wookiee since the beginning, she created a baby Wookiee cake!

We invited a bunch of friends and families over last Friday night for the big reveal. We had a ton of food.

We asked people to wear pink or blue to show what they thought the baby was. We didn't really know, but felt like we needed to embrace the gender "argument." So, we had shirts made. The backs (not pictured) have Daddy or Mommy and the #1 (like a jersey).

It was a mostly split group. My parents were a split decision (although Daddy wouldn't have worn pink even if he thought it was a girl).  If we had to guess, there were slightly more Team Boy people than Team Girl.

So, after everyone had eaten their fill of the yummy food, it was time to cut the cake and figure out if Baby T is a boy or a girl. (Note the super cute monkey plates & napkins!

There's quite a bit of pressure with everyone watching you do this. But we managed to make it without making too much of a mess. But, there was no doubt in the cake. We will be having a little man next spring-

 

Now it's time for name picking (we don't have any idea yet) and blue outfits. And for the fun of it- here are a couple of pictures from the last ultrasound. The first one is a picture of his full body- his head to the right and his body to the left.

The second one is his face looking at you. A little creepy with the hollow eye sockets, but I'm certain that he is already a beautiful little guy! (SMUG ALERT)

Since I was only 18 weeks along at the ultrasound, and little man wasn't really interested in having his picture taken, we get to have another ultrasound done in January. They weren't able to check his heart and make sure everything was okay with it. But everything they were able to see looks great. So far so good with his development. He was measuring two days bigger than his due date (or however that's supposed to be worded), but two days isn't a big deal.

I have started feeling the little guy moving around. Everyone's description of this feeling is different, which makes it hard to figure out what to expect. For me, it feels kind of like a really strong twitch like you would have in your eye.

I guess that's about it for this update. I'll be 20 weeks on Sunday, which is the "official" halfway point. We will try to get a belly bump pic up soon!