Well, I’ve been informed that in order for me to solidify my role as the “other parent” of this child, I need to make a blog entry tonight…apparently just providing the swimmers that got us here wasn’t enough. So, officially all of the cool stuff seems to happen without me there (well, I suppose it’s not entirely true to say that ALL the cool stuff happens without me, in that obviously ONE pretty cool thing that required my presence happened about 12 weeks and 5 days ago)! Anyway, Elisabeth went in for what was supposed to be a standard appointment to have some tests run at a more specialized fetal clinic that apparently had some pretty high tech ultrasound equipment…an appointment where nothing overly spectacular was supposed to happen in the way of new developments. So with a hectic work schedule today, we figured that I would be safe to sit this one out. Wrong. Elisabeth called me when she was finished to say that she had received an interesting bit of news during the visit, but when I pressed her to fill me in, she said it was news that she couldn't share with me over the phone. As it turns out, after having gone through a series of 3D ultrasounds, they were actually able to determine (with at least 90% certainty) the sex of the little jumping bean growing inside her! So, I promptly ducked out of a meeting at my office in order to drive up to hers. Shortly after opening the door she mandated that I close my eyes. Now, as anyone who has been familiar with this pregnancy thus far knows (not to mention the many months/years of “baby conversations” prior) we were DEFINITLEY going to be having a girl first…which I suppose should have been my first clue. Once I got the green light from Elisabeth to open my eyes, there she stood in front of me with a blue lollypop in her hand…across the front of which it read “IT’S A BOY”. Unreal…I was completely floored…absolutely incredible that we're going to have a SON…and immediately my mind snapped to thoughts about exactly how small they make Vikings jerseys?! Needless to say we were both teary-eyed as we hugged each other tightly for a while, first for love and then almost just to absorb the enormity of this surprise. So...it's official...it's a boy!
Now, when I was informed that I would be contributing to the blog this evening, given the newly discovered gender of the baby, my immediate inclination was to post this under the subject line heading of “Holy Balls!”…but apparently I’ve been informed by the mother-to-be that such a tag line isn't as much a “creative play on words” as it is “wildly inappropriate language” for a baby blog. Man, parenting is tough.
The pictures that I posted below were from the ultrasound today. One of which is a 3D pic, where the baby looks uncannily like an old man, and in the other non-3D pic the baby's making his old man proud as it looks uncannily like he’s hoisting a cold beer. I will also try to figure out how to post a video clip that I harvested from the ultrasound dvd that they gave us. If I manage to get that posted, pay particular attention to what I think is a pretty sweet "ween shot" about 3 seconds in…definitely a Peterson. If for some reason I can't figure out the video post and you are interested in seeing it, I'll make sure that both Elisabeth and I have the file to send by email.
So, it’s official…Elisabeth is going to have her hands full...now that there’s going to be two of us running around!
1 comment:
YEAH! Congratulations!!! I would say that boys are easier than girls, but we've had our share of boy difficulties and NO girl experience....yet. So, nonetheless best of luck. xoxo Wendy & Bill Claytor
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