MOTHER'S DAY....TO BE THAT IS....

I had asked my husband a few weeks before Mother's Day if I was entitled to celebrate it now that I was pregnant. He said, "of course, you can." So that's when I informed him that I was to get a present and be taken out to eat :) Not that I really expected this but I had fun with it. My mother-in-law sent me a precious mommy-to-be card and a darling outfit for Will. My husband came home from work a night or two before and had a cute stuffed bear and explained to me that he had done something a little different. He wanted to find a card to give me from the baby. He couldn't find very many that said "mommy." He finally found one that had a precious little inchworm or something like it on the cover and said, "Mommy,do you know what this is? It's a snugglebug hug just for you!" Then, my husband wrote in it..."Mommy, I know I'm not here yet but thanks for loving me before I was...love Will." That melted my heart b/c my husband got creative and he thinks he doesn't have it in him. Then on Sunday, he took me to eat at Cheddars which is my favorite restaurant in the whole world that is now thankfully in Norman and not all the way in Tulsa! I had a pretty good day and thanks to my hubby for making it very special for me!

WE ARE HAVING A ......

Wow! Last Thursday was a very exciting day for us. It was a very LONG day to say the least but a very blessed one at that. I had my ultrasound and it took an hour! It was very thorough since we don't go back again until 30 weeks and my abdomen is sore now from all the pressing on it. On our last ultrasound at almost 13 weeks, there was nothing in between the baby's legs and we got a pretty good picture. So, we were in little girl mode but still knowing that anything could happen. Well, our baby did a lot of developing in five weeks and we are having....a BOY! He is definitely a boy :) . I actually saw his evidence before the ultrasound tech told us and I said "is that a boy?" She said "that's DEFINITELY a boy." We were so excited and we cried. It was a special treat because although we are only doing this once and I thought I couldn't live without my little girl, we are naming the boy after his grandpa who never got his grandson while he was here on earth so we will be naming the baby after him. We will have a William Everett Perry in the fall. We will call him Will and we love it and we love him so much already. It's fun now to refer to him as a "he" and not "it." Here is a look at our little "sprout," "gummi bear." This is 17 weeks and 2 days. Amazing!!!