It's a BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday night goes down as one of those top ten days, thus far, in my life.  I am so glad that we waited the 12 (not quite as agonizingly long as I thought) days for the gender reveal party.  So many of our closest friends and family were there, it was such a special moment.  

The party was great, food and friends were plentiful and amazingly enough, I wasn't chomping at the bit to pop the balloon, I think I was more nervous than anything.  Finally, the big moment arrived and after a count of three, Daniel popped it.  I was shocked!  I couldn't believe how much blue was falling at me and in total disbelief that it wasn't pink!  What I couldn't stop thinking, after the tears stopped flowing, was that Daniel was getting his little man and the Hillman name would continue on with this babe (not to mention that everyone loves a Jewish boy!). I'm in love all over again and cannot wait for 19 weeks to pass until we get to look into his little eyes.  

Team Blue!

Team Pink!

It's funny, when people asked me if I had any premonitions as to what we were having, I always said that I didn't have one.  Deep down, I must have thought we were having a girl because I found myself looking mostly at the girl lists in the baby name books, the girl headbands on Etsy and the girl clothes in stores.  After Friday night, I have had to make a complete shift in my thinking.  That night before bed I typed, "baby boy" into Pinterest and cooed over the adorable little man shoes, pictures of baby boys being held in their daddy's hands and all things related to snips and snails and puppy dog tails.  I'm going to have a little boy, I can't believe it...

Speaking of boy, here is the picture that we got from the doctor that held the truth--I guess the four clicks on the keyboard wasn't four clicks after all but more like fifteen! I had to ask Todd to describe exactly what I was seeing and was told to picture a baby sitting on a glass table and you are looking up at the baby.  You see too little legs and baby boy parts, or that's what Todd told me anyway. How they can pick this stuff up amazes me, but there it is--my son's boy parts all over the internet!

Lastly, when garage sale-ing with Meg a few weeks ago we found this sweater and just had to buy it because it was just so precious.  So glad I spent that 50 cents and can't wait to see him in in this winter!

Baby BOY is the size of a pomegranate!

~Mama Jess