Britton. Yes, it’s a boy! I know, totally shocking. Well, a bit unexpected. I’d been telling myself over the past week that it really could be a boy. I mean–I haven’t gained weight anywhere but my stomach; I now love cheese, dairy and red meat; sweets make me ill, but sour foods are great; and the ring test said BOY. So, it wasn’t a complete shock.

Now that it’s been a couple of days, I can say I’m really excited. It will be an adventure learning about boys and how they work. It’s new territory for me and my family, but boys are cute too!

We got a bunch of pictures from the ultrasound. Though, she did get a lot of the same ones, and not really some we wanted, but that’s ok. I went a little earlier than they recommend for 4-D procedures, and now I see why–he looks very skeletal still. If we blew up one of the pictures and framed it we could use it as a Halloween decoration because it’s kind of orange colored with black, and in a few of the shots he looks like a little jack-o-lantern/skeleton face.

But, there are other ones, like this one where we can see he does have a nose, and eyes and even a cute little hand that he’s resting on his forehead in an oh so dramatic way–or maybe he’s waving to Mom and Dad.

Interestingly, I found some bedding on Friday with turtles (his room is going to be a “sea” theme with turtles and waves and things) that is perfect for a boy–blue, green and yellow.

Now we’re just excited that we can start buying him things, and it’s much more fun to say “he” than “it.” We can call him by name now too, which is also fun.

According to the measurements, he’s a little big for his age. He measured 17 weeks 3 days when I was 16 weeks 4 days. He weighs 6 ounces and is about 5 inches long, head to bum. His bones are starting to harden and his hearing is also developing.

Here’s another shot of him from the side….