3/12/10 :: day 127
My tail bone is constantly sore…no matter what type of chair I sit in. I’m about this close (holding up my hand with my thumb and pointer finger a 1/2 inch apart) to bringing a chair doughnut to sit on at work. Not to mention when I do my kegal exercises it agitates my tail bone even more. I guess those muscles are connected.
3/16/10 :: day 131
I am so unbelievably tired today. Both Derek and I got very little sleep last night. I figured the night BEFORE we found out the gender of our baby would be a sleepless night…boy was I wrong. I zonked out the night before, but the night of…I couldn’t get my mind to slow down.
Yesterday was the big day. Baby Sex Day, as Derek likes to call it. He thinks the shock of the wording is funny. I think so too. So, Derek went with me to the doctor yesterday to find out what we were having. They called us right back for the ultrasound. We were taken a little off guard that we were doing that 1st thing, but we were still very excited. The technician scanned the baby’s head, kidneys, bladder, and limbs, and then she moved on to the moment of truth. IT’S A BOY! Just as she said those three little words a tear ran down my cheek.
We invited close friends and family over for the big reveal last night. I thought it would be fun to reveal the baby’s gender to everyone by having everyone bite into a “baby” sized cupcake and finding either pink or blue on the inside. We also picked up some BBQ sandwiches from a local BBQ joint, Central BBQ. It was so yummy.
Once we got home from the doctor’s office I began adding the blue icing to the cupcakes and then topping them with vanilla to mask the inserted color.
People began arriving around 6:30pm. We dug into some BBQ and then around 7:20pm the big cupcake reveal happened. Everyone was extremely excited. Including little Sophie you see in the picture below, we had a grand total of 17 people partaking in the big reveal. And they all were able to fit inside of our teeny tiny house!
I think my mom and sister were hoping for a girl…maybe next time. My mom even brought a present for a little girl. It was the sweetest little blue and white cotton dress you’ve ever seen. Sorry mom. 
Our friends Ryan and Sarah arrived just a few short minutes after the reveal so I pulled them aside, and gave them each a cupcake. They each bit in and saw the blue. However, Ryan yells out IT’S A GIRL! We all began to laugh because we thought he was just kidding…like he always does. Come to find out he was serious. He told us later in the evening that he was expecting it to be a girl, and didn’t register the color. He just saw “a color” and shouted from the roof tops that we were having a girl. That guy cracks me up.
In all, it was a great day ( and night ). I’m so thankful that we have friends and family that love us so much that they chose to share this special day with us.
3/17/10 :: day 132
YOUCH! My tail bone and lower back are aching. I’ve only been sitting at work for 2 hours and I’m already needing to get up and walk around. I have stood up in my cube and stretched 3 times this morning, and I’m about to go for #4.
