It's a sweet baby boy!

Randy is finally home and we're having a baby boy!!! :) We had an amazing day and it was so much fun to find out together. I can't imagine not waiting for him to find out the gender. Living with the envelope wasn't as bad and what everyone imagined, but I'll be honest and say the last week was just plain annoying. People due 2 months after us were announcing what they were having and I was just ready for it to be our turn!

As soon as we found out we called Petal Pushers. They delivered flowers to our parents that said, "It's a boy!" I went to see Val while I was home for Labor Day and they were incredibly excited to be in on the surprise with us. We spent the rest of the afternoon making phone calls and sending texts so that we could share the news with everyone else.

Yesterday I had my 24 week appointment and everything looked good. I saw Dr. Coleman again and I was really glad Randy was able to meet her this time. She tried to find the little man's heartbeat, but all she was hearing was kicks at first. I hope this isn't any indication of his energy level or behavior once he arrives :) It came up that Randy wasn't at the 20 week u/s so she was incredibly sweet and brought the u/s machine in for us. It wasn't as high quality as the previous one, but any chance to get a glimpse of him we'll take. He was moving all around and once again hiding his little face from us.

Tonight we're heading to Babies R Us when I get off work. The store just opened last week so I'm really excited to see what they have. I have not bought one single baby item so I'm ready to do some shopping! Saturday we're having a 3D ultrasound done out in town and then Randy leaves again on Sunday for the Big Island for a month. I was assuming we'd have all day Sunday together, but they booked the flights in alphabetical order so Randy is on the 2:30AM flight. Lovely, huh?!

I'll have Randy take some pictures of my belly before he leaves again and I'll post them on Sunday afternoon. It's definitely grown since Iowa! I'll also post some images from the u/s since they give us a cd with all the images they get :)