20-17 Weeks!

Over the Holidays we shared some exciting news with our families.  I ideally wanted to share after my sisters wedding so she didn't have another thing to stress over, but both she and my sister Kassidy figured it out well before the wedding.  On Christmas day we told our parents, and then the very next day we surprised Sean's family by having them drive for an hour into Tacoma to meet us at the most adorable ultra sound clinic I've ever been to.  When they arrived they thought we were just there to tell them we were expecting, but we were actually there to have them share with us the finding out gender.  Everyone was able to be seated comfortably, we were all able to see what was happening on the big screen.  The technician told us that she had only boys that day, and everyone became excited.  Sean's family has 5 little girl grandbabies and no boys, so I'm pretty sure I was the only impartial to gender as everyone else was rooting for a boy.  After a few tries of getting baby to uncross legs and trying to distinguish umbilical chord, the technician took some good pictures showing we would be welcoming a little boy to our family in 2017.  Everyone cheered.  It was an exciting time, my husband practically bounced out of the clinic with joy.

I have let Sean take the reigns a lot more with this pregnancy than I did with Ely.  Here is his beautiful baby announcement that he created (before he knew gender).   

I am so so excited to have a son!  That being said I am a little nervous.  I am so in the dark when it comes to boys.  I was in the little boy section and was just like, I think dinosaurs are cute and monsters but other than that the rest of this stuff is completely foreign to me, I am not really shy about stating that, so I told Sean he can be in charge of clothes.   He has 3 outfits for him already, he came home from a quick trip to the BX for a few essentials and brought home some little outfits not on the list of things he went there for.  I have really been stressing about the size of our home, placing two small children in one small room.  I have come to terms that we probably will not be able to move off base, military politics summarized we have to live where we live right now.  I became very discouraged about it this week, not wanting to give in and place enormous toddler toys in my living room, I  mentioned transforming a storage closet into a play room for Ely.  It looked like a huge undertaking, but Sean was able to do it with me at work today and I almost cried when I came home to see the transformation of not just the closet but of our children's (so weird to say that) room.  Ely loves her new toddler bed and her new play room, she calls it her house.  I feel like we can make this work now.  Now we just need to agree on a name and get his side of the room decorated.  The second baby is so much more relaxed than the first!  I have been not nearly as stressed as I was with Ely.  I am so grateful we get to do this again, for our growing family, and our many blessings.