Getting ready for the baby.

"HELLO!"
Here is a funny picture of Keegan being silly through our stair well.

Yesterday we got a new nursing chair! I'm so excited about it! We had a stationary chair in Keegan's room when he was little and it worked just fine but I thought it would be nice to have a rocker. We have a rocking chair that is a family heirloom but it has wood arms and I would always hit Keegan's head on the arms!
So I wanted to cute, plush chair. We have been on the look out for a while. They are expensive!! We found this one on craigs list for pretty inexpensive! It's in great condition, looks barely used!

Keegan is saying "night night" in this photo. Which is why he is laying down with a weird look on his face. He has been so silly lately! And picking up words like crazy! I think in the last week he has said more than 20 new words. Words that we didn't even know he knew like tape! or noodle! It's been so fun. I think he has obtained the skill of copying words.
He's also super excited about letters lately and can point out a handful of letters. I was so suprised yesterday he came to me with his magnet letter "m" told me what it was, turned it upside down, and said "woobwowu" It is so crazy the kind of things kids pick up! We aren't even trying very hard to teach him! Crazy guy.

I'm 24 weeks pregnant now, so six months! I can't believe we only have three more months til this little guy comes out! He is a mover and a shaker! Always moving and kicking!
We're planning on having him sleep in our room for a good chunk of time so we put our new rocker in our room. We might even have the baby's room be my closet for a while, just so we can keep our guest room. That's what we are thinking right now, but it might change. When can kids share a room?

It's A BOY!

So Most people by now know that we are due to have a baby June 5-ish! But I thought I would log it on our blog just in case the gender word didn't get out and also for our own personal log here on the blog :0)

Three weeks ago before our Campus Crusade Staff meeting we had our 20 week appointment. We decided to have the ultrasound technician write the sex on a piece of paper so that we can have a surprise reveal with our Corvallis family- our staff team.
So the technician wrote it down and we gave that slip of paper to Julie on our team who then frosted the middle of this cake the gender color! Mid staff meeting the cake came out and we got to slice into it!
If I'm honest I can say that I wasn't really able to concentrate during the first half of our staff meeting. I was nervous and ready to hear the news! Running all the images of the ultrasound in my head trying to remember if I saw any evidence. Replaying the technicians words trying to hear clues. Which she did give us a few BIG clues. I couldn't tell if they were slip ups or honest mistakes. Either way we sliced into this yummy cake aaandd...


BLUE!!!
Brent saw the color first, he yelled "It's going to be a boy!!" I wouldn't believe it until I saw that blue with my own eyes. Yup. BLUE! Another boy!!
The news came as a shock even though the ultrasound tech. slipped
She slipped by saying things like "HIS." Also when I asked her if she was sure she knew the sex she said "OH YES! It was VERY obvious!" I thought, well so are your words. You just gave it away lady! What could possibly so obvious besides little baby BOY parts!
I'm not sure how those Tech's do it when the clients really do not want to know the sex. At least with her slip up we were going to find out an hour or so later. Anyhow...


Here is our lovely Staff Team! I'm glad we got to share that moment with them.

Top Left: Allan, Steph, Lauren, Sarah, Hannah, Matt, Tom (S,H,M and T are all student staff) Julie. Bottom left: Brent, Alli, Byron and I

I thought I was really starting to pop outthen and now that I look at this picture, there isn't so much of a baby bump as the image I had in my mind. ha.

Afterwards the ladies and I got to process how I was feeling about having another boy and that was good too. I was a little let down. No ribbons and bows for this household, yet at least. We'll see after this baby is born if that is ever going to be an option.
But now I am excited about another boy! Keegan has a couple friend-boys that he plays with and it is so fun to see them belly laugh, play cars and chase each other. He is such a boys boy, it will be good for him to have another little buddy to chum around with. Plus! We have all boy toys and clothes so we are set! Yay!
A couple days after we got the news I realized I had forgotten that I once said I've always wanted boys! Lots of rowdy boot-trompin' over-all wearin', rock throwin', cape flying-superman boys! So I guess I'm getting that dream. That I need to keep remembering.