Joshua's Going to Have a....

BROTHER!!!!

The arrow is pointing to the proof that this is definitely a boy!

In fact, the day before, Joshua started saying baby. Then he said something that sounded close to "bro-der" and later "bah ba-by." I asked him, "Joshua, are you trying to tell me something or is God?" Sure enough, he was right! When we got to the ultrasound, the technician asked if we wanted to know gender. Well, I could already see it clear as day on the screen. There were two arms and two legs spread wide open...

This is the baby's profile. The bright white on the bottom is the back of our little boy's skull, and you can see the ear on the side and his nose and lips on the top. His head is much bigger than his body, and you can see a food at the very top of the picture.

Dr. Bayliss said the baby wasn't cooperating, so they were having a hard time checking out the heart and lungs in depth. So far, everything looks good and normal. But, it was too hard to tell for sure because the baby was hiding behind my belly button and then would only show his spine or open legs and not the abdomen that they were concerned with. So, we go back on March 20 to confirm that our baby boy is 100% healthy.

This is our baby's face in 3-D. You can see his chin start just above the black circle in the middle, his little mouth is open above that, you can tell the nose and eyes and forehead.

The pictures we got are a little too detailed, if you ask me. The baby's face looks like cottage cheese and Dr. Bayliss said he looks like the Terminator. So, we laughed that we're having T2. I've never seen the movie and didn't know what that looked like, but I looked up a picture on the Internet last night. That is what an ultrasound basically looks like. The picture on the left is looking at the baby's face like you would "normally" see it (i.e. vertical). You can see the outline of the head, the eye holes and the nose and chin bone.

Here's the baby's face again via a "normal" ultrasound image.

While we would have been thrilled to have a girl, too, we're excited to give Joshua a brother to play with and bond with. Everything we have is blue - the nursery is yellow & blue, our stroller is blue, all our clothes and blankets are blue, etc. Not that it makes a big difference, but it will be nice to not have to buy anything new. And, I can picture these two boys being pals and hanging out together playing sports (or whatever they'll do), and I think it will be nice for both of them. Dr. Bayliss warned Joshua that his little brother might be bigger than him at 16 or 17 so he should whoop him good at 12. We laughed. Welcome, little one! We'll have to narrow down your name now!