YES FOLKS, IT'S A BOY!

January 29, 2009
Today was the big day! The Schulz' are having a BOY!

It all started at our fourteen week ultrasound. The specialist asked us if we were planning to find out what the sex of the baby was and we said yes. I love surprises, but I really want to be all prepared with a perfect little boy's nursery and clothes. So, out of no where she asks, "Do you want to know now?"

My heart shot to my throat and was beating furiously. I was all prepared to go in at 20 weeks and find out, but this was over a month early. Ernie's response was, and I quote, "heck yes."

Up until this point I had been feeling like maybe it was a girl and Ern had been thinking maybe a boy. Then she showed us a screen shot and said she was pretty sure it was a boy. We both started crying and all I heard out of Ernie were phrases like, "that's my boy" and "Go head, I have a son."

On the way home we called our parents and told them, which of course was a really great moment. However, when I did a little research I found out that it is next to impossible to know for sure at 14 wks what the sex is. At that point we decided to try and stay open and that we would wait for the 20 week confirmation to share the news with everyone.

Today we got that confirmation! (complete with an arrow)

This picture tells the full story. Hopefully our son won't be too disgruntled when he finds out we put his business out there to all our friends and family to see. I will post more of the ultrasound photos once I get them scanned, but oh my, he is so cute and funny. He even had the specialist laughing. He's active and all of his measurements and readings were very healthy! Praise God.