BOY BOY BOY!!!

On Friday, December 20th, Rance and I headed to our 16 week appointment (I was 15 weeks, 6 days to be exact).  This was just a quick checkup where we would hear the heartbeat, etc. and be on our merrily little way (or so we thought). 

Bathroom picture before heading to the doctor!

When we arrived at the doctor's office that day, we found out we were seeing the midwife that we saw our very first appointment (we rotate each appointment in order to meet them all).  It's fun how you just automatically share a special bond with her so we were super excited when Judy walked into our room.  After catching up and all that - she informed us that we could always shoot to the Franklin office and have a 'sneak peak' done to find out earlier than 20 weeks what the baby was if we wanted.  First of all, I had no idea this was an option.  Secondly, we were heading to Nahunta for a week so there was no way to have it done before we left.  We politely said we would just wait and thought that was the end of that.  NOTTTT....

Within a few minutes, we were totally blown out of the water to be offered to have a SNEAK PEAK THAT DAY in the doctor's office we were in IF WE WANTED.  ARE YOU KIDDING ME????  I cannot even begin to explain how my body started SWEATING.  I have no idea why?!  I think it was pure excitement and JOY and being completely SURPRISED.  I mean, we had NO idea we were going to be able to find out the sex of our baby THAT DAY, only 5 days before CHRISTmas!!!  

Rance and I waited in a room for about 10 minutes until they called us back for our 'sneak peak' ultrasound.  Those 10 minutes were PRECIOUS.  We were squealing and sighing and saying 'can you believe we get to find out TODAY?! ' We were even more excited because this meant I could tell my family IN PERSON for CHRISTmas (whereas if we found out at my 20 week ultrasound in January we knew it would probably be done over the phone).  God and His sweet, sweet timing and gifts to His children.

Once we arrived in the ultrasound room, it was less than a minute before the ultrasound began and the VERY FIRST PICTURE that popped up on the screen could not have been more clear what we were having.  In that moment, Rance and I both FROZE ... waiting for the nurse to confirm what we KNEW we saw!

She said...

"Well....there is a leg....


....and the other leg...


...and Yep, there is His stuff in between!


YOU ARE HAVING A BOY!


YIKES!  You can't even imagine the squealing and shouting that followed :)  Homeboy's legs looked a mile long and he was kicking them 100mph and they all said 'he's a runner'!  While I was thinking 'awwwww' then I thought 'I bet that is going to feel GOOD soon jabbing in my side.' HA! 

I absolutely LOVE surprises and this day was one sweet surprise that we will never forget!

Here is a viewing of what we saw on the ultrasound...
 

Legs just a kickin'!

 

full view of baby boy!!!



This gal is AWESOME for sneaking us in that day
and totally surprising us!

Who would have thought at 15 weeks and 6 days, we would leave our doctor appointment knowing God is knitting a little boy in the womb!  Thank you DADDY for such a gift!