Monday, June 8, 2009

31 weeks & 5 days

Drum roll please..........

Oh wait...


Nope...

There's nothing to announce....

Still no idea of gender.

"Why?" you ask??

We have been debating this topic over the last few days. Again, I pretty much remain on the fence while Dwayne wants to know (at least he keeps telling me he wants to know).

At one point I told him he could find out but I wanted to wait. Though its been a mildly discussed debate over the last few days, its certainly something I don't want to screw up. I mean, once we know we can't 'unknow' and if we decide later we want to know we have to cough up a bit more money to find out (recall, Dwayne thinks I'll cheat looking at the envelope even though I'm the one who's thinking I want to wait).

This time around with the 3D we tried to do a better job at preparing for it. We had a list of music and Dwayne spent the evening before downloading and editing the list I put together.

Once we arrived at the clinic we couldn't find the playlist that was put together - ah well, everyone's always in the mood for elevator music.

The debate from the last few days went right down to the wire. The last call was in Dwayne's court. Since I was on the fence I told Dwayne it was his decision.

I was shocked when he circled "No" regarding finding out the gender on the form.

So there we have it. Still no idea (and no idea why the topic - or lack of - has managed to take up so much space and time these last few days).

On another note, here are a few shots of the little guy/girl and Dwayne can't imagine this little face on a girl so he's convinced its a boy.

I can't get past the fact that the baby has some features that look nothing like either of us (nose, lips). So, I'm hoping the features in the 3D ultrasound are somewhat distorted. I know for a fact neither Dwayne nor I have lips that full or a nose that wide. Still, even it if isn't ours (which IS entirely possible) we're keeping it.

August 12 may indeed be an interesting day!!




Scrunched up Face.











Best Face Shot














Eyes open a crack.

Friday, June 5, 2009

30 weeks & 2 days

As we approach the big 3D day I've begun to second guess whether I want to know the gender anymore. I mean, we have made it this far and really, there SHOULD only be another 9 weeks or so to go before we know one way or the other, right?

Why not wait?

As I sit down and list the reasons for finding out the only pro I can think of is simple curiosity. I mean, I don't plan on buying anything. The 'room' we have set aside is painted a neutral colour (hiking trail brown) and anything else we've done or planning on doing is fine to do gender neutral (after all I have enough newborn stuff I can borrow from my sister and who cares if its a girl and she's dressed in blue for a week or two. I mean, it would be worse if it was a boy dressed in pink right??).

So, in a nut shell, I'm on the fence.

Dwayne on the other hand says he wants to know for a variety of reasons one being "if we're not finding out, why are we wasting our time doing a 3D ultrasound".

I pitched the idea of having the technician write it down for us but not tell us (in a sealed envelope) but Dwayne thinks I'll cheat. Humph - so much for a trusting marriage!!