We're a few weeks over halfway! And it's sunny today! What a fabulous day. 

We've been doing little things here and there to get more ready for the munchkin. A few weekends ago Mike (and me a little) painted some stripes on one of the walls for our little guy's room. We haven't quite gotten anything else figured out as far as his room goes, but it is filling up quickly thanks to hand-me-down things we've been getting from our really nice family. We also bought a stroller and a car seat so we made our first big purchase. I'm taking a rest from purchases now, because I can make up my mind what I like or how I want to do his room. We'll see how it goes. 

These are our stripes. Mike did a great job. I just helped a teensy bit, but he's such a trooper. I love him for always being excited to hear my ideas and put them into action. 

Yesterday was our big appointment where they looked at all the body parts and we got to see the little guy in 3D. It was so cool. I wanted to hang out in there forever and just watch him move around. I was so relieved to hear that everything looks good and he's right on track with all his development. She said that he's right around 22-23 weeks in his development and weighs about 1 lb and 1 oz, so we are right on track if not a little bit ahead of schedule. I was also happy to know he has all his fingers and toes! What a miracle it is that these little ones can just grow like that! What a blessing, really.

He already has a little bit of an attitude I think. It made us laugh though. Every time the doctor would try to get a good shot of his face, we would put both hands over his face so we couldn't see. He kept snuggling right to the bottom of the uterus, (sorry uterus is kind of a gross word) so she had me laying upside down to try and get him to move out of there, but he just didn't like the idea. So she started trying to push his little head up a little and both hands would fly up to his face and he'd cover it. Then we'd go to another body part, and every time we'd go back, his little hands would go right back to his face. This was the best shot we got of his little face. You can see his little thumb up by his right eye, he had just moved his hand out of the way for one second. Maybe this is only a face a mama could love, but he just looks so sweet to me. His little nose is just so cute. We also got some pictures of his tiny feet too. He has my weird long second toe. Poor guy. Seeing him moving around and looking like a real little human definitely got us excited for July. 

Other than that everything is going really well. I've felt really blessed recently and I'm so grateful for prayer and answers to those prayers. :)

That's all for today. Hope everyone enjoys the sun!!

Baby Hancock

When I used to think about being pregnant, having our first baby, etc. I never even thought about the gender of the baby or what I preferred or which would be better and blah blah blah.

But then I was pregnant.
And I started to try and plan. And that didn't work, because obviously I don't have any control over this decision what so ever. And it really bugged me. As most things that I can't control do.

But I think I learned a good lesson. I definitely learned that in all situations the will of Heavenly Father is a whole lot more important than our own. And most of the time we should (I should) stop worrying about things, and just let Him take care of them. (I think I've said this a hundred times before.. and I probably will keep learning it over and over.)

That kind of made it sound like I didn't get what I wanted.. which isn't really true either. I didn't really care whether it was a boy or a girl, but I got all crazy trying to plan for one or the other and asking myself, "what do I feel like it is?" and doing crazy stuff like believing what everyone told me when they thought they knew what it was. Then I pretty much convinced myself that it was a girl (thanks to pretty much every woman in my family predicting that it was a girl) and then psyched myself out when the doctor thought it was a boy.

Yeah I'm a little bit crazy. And hormonal.

But we finally did find out what the baby is! And we couldn't be happier. Especially knowing that this little spirit will be so perfect in our family.

We decided to have a little "gender reveal" party to tell our families what the gender was.
I really never take pictures at parties and large events because I am easily distracted, but I did snag a picture of the cake and the oreo balls that we made. haha
In addition to this, my mom made a graph of how many boys and girls are in our family and statistically what the odds are that it was one or the other. Then she had everyone wear a little pin of what their guess was. Statistically we were supposed to have a boy, but more people guessed a girl.

Here's the cake I made for it. The inside frosting showed what it is!

 (somehow I forgot to get a picture of my little nephew cutting it or the actual inside of the cake... oops)

These are just some treats I made for the party.

And since I forgot the picture of the inside of the cake, I'll just tell you all that baby Hancock is a....

BOY!!

We're really excited, and Mike is so cute about it. I hope he is a little mini Mike so bad. Looks and all. It would be so cute. 

And last but not least, here is a super weird 19 week belly shot in my gym clothes. Woo hoo. 

(if you are wondering where by arm is don't worry, it's just up in the air.. I really wasn't quite sure how to take this picture.)

Patience, Patience, Patience

That is what I lack.

I'm serious. I am not very patient at all. Especially when dealing with things I can't control. It's extremely awful. I like to know everything about every situation I'm in and I never want to wait! I hate waiting. So much.

Well I guess Heavenly Father told our child this and our child is using this against me. (or trying to help teach me.....either way)

We went in for our appointment yesterday hoping to find out what this little munchkin is. Well he or she wasn't having that. Not for a second. Not only did it wrap its legs up and not let us see a single thing, it also hid behind the placenta AND decided to sleep through the entire ultrasound and not make a single move. (Well besides it's few little leg movements when my doctor was basically banging on my uterus trying to wake the child up. That was comfortable...not.)

I would post the ultrasound picture, but it's not that cool since all you can see is the baby's head and then a big blob. Plus I don't have it with me so maybe I will do that later.

She did get a little leg shot before she gave up and said she was going to guess a boy because she thought she maybe saw a little something besides the legs in there. But she also reserved the right to change her guess.

Mike swears he saw something too, but I just can't go with a guess. I need a for sure.

So we will wait and see! My favorite...