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Hello folks! How are you doing tonight?

So...do you know what today was? We brought all the kids with us to the ultrasound this afternoon to see how the baby is doing and see if we could tell if it's a boy or a girl. This is a picture of our five kids waiting in the lobby before going into to get looked at.

Everyone except Darling Rose is stepping on the ledge. At 5' 10", she would throw off this nice little curve that we have going on.

Here we are in the ultrasound room.

Here is the baby...
Oh, is it a boy or a girl?
Well, take a look!
What do you think?

This photo is compliments of Darling Rose.
She made sure to take several for your viewing pleasure.
This is a view looking inbetween the legs.
And that little bump?
Yes, it's a boy!!!

Guess who happened to be wearing the perfect shirt?
5-year-old Iris Anna.
Everything about baby is looking good, however, there was one little surprise.
The baby is measuring at 16 weeks along instead of almost 18 weeks along.
In fact, they could not get a good reading on his heart so I will be back in a few weeks to have that looked at.
However, all of his other organs, including the head and the brain look normal.
To be honest, I was concerned, but the midwife was not.
Before an ultrasound is taken, due dates are set according to the first day of you last menstrual cycle with conception estimated to occur 14 days after the first day of your last period.
However, ovulation doesn't always occur at exactly 14 days ...it could occur at 19, 21, 28 days after the first day of your last period, which happened with our now two-year-old son.
Hence, the reason that due dates can be off, which appears to be the case here.

But, I have a feeling that until that baby comes out happy and smiling, I will not be completely worry free. Though, I think worry-ing is actually very normal.
This would put my due date at November 2, instead of October 21.
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Well, here's a few pictures of what I ate today...

steel cut oats

grapefruit

some coffee

lunch was refreshing!

This was a Russell Stover peanut caramel cluster.

It was actually pretty good.

I put together some potatoes for tonight.

This is what it looked like cooked up.

I also whipped up some fruit salad.

It was wonderful!

My husband cooked up some chicken quarters too.

It was a wonderful meal that was shared with my parents who stopped over to celebrate the good news of our upcoming baby boy.
We already have a name picked out for our baby boy, but we don't have a boy blog name picked out.

Does anyone have any ideas?

All of our kid's blog names are named after flowers.

I'm not even sure I could give this child a blog flower name until I saw him...

So, until then...I'm not sure what to call him besides..."our son". Ha, ha!

I'll have to think about this.

But for now, all is good.

I didn't get in a work-out today with all the hubbub of this afternoon and this evening, but I plan to hit the gym the rest of this week.

I'm sorry I'm behind on reading up on everyone. Yes, Dawn, I miss you too.

I'm really trying to get my act together. Ha, Ha!

In the meantime, it's practically Wednesday! Everyone have a good one!

Sincerely,

Sunshine Mama