BOY!!!!!!
I had my 20 week ultrasound today and found out that we have a little soccer player practicing up in me! It was not what we expected--we had very strong feelings like we were having a girl--but we are very excited! Boy names are going to be hard... Gavin is excited and I'm sure Jacen will be too. Linnea will be after probably some initial disappointment. I'm going to take her shopping to pick out a little boy outfit to help her feel a little better. Shopping always helps a girl. I'll post some pictures up later tonight.
Okay, I can't upload the ultrasound pictures. They are scanned into my computer but it's not working. I will try to work on it. Their is a picture of his little face and a picture of his boy parts, which Jace thinks is totally inappropriate to post on my blog. It turns out that Linnea was much, much more upset then I thought she would be. I told her when I picked her up from school and she burst into tears and ran away and all the way home. I followed after and heard her in her room crying so I thought I'd let her be for a little while to try to work some of the emotions out on her own. When I finally did go into her room to try to console her, she had little baby girl clothes (that's how sure we were it was a girl) laid out carefully around her bedroom floor and she was in the middle of them just sobbing away. I felt so bad for her. I asked her if she wanted to take some of them back and exchange them for boy clothes and she just wasn't up for it. She cried for at least another hour and then tonight she said that she was ready to go shopping. It was too late so I told her we could go tomorrow, so instead she went online to oldnavy.com and started some online shopping. She's coming around. She's afraid she's going to just have one more boy picking on her all the time. Poor Linnea. I told her he would probably be really sweet and look up to her and she could teach him all sorts of things like my older brother taught me. Leif taught me how to tie my shoes, ride my bike, dive, and so many other things. I also told her that her aunt Yolanda was the only girl in a family with four brothers and she got to have her own room when they had to share. If you have any other ideas to console Linnea, I'd love to hear them, but I'm sure she'll be fine. Now we just have to think of a name. I think that's going to be hard so I'm glad we have time.
After Gavin and I dropped Jace and Linnea off at school, we decided to go for one of our walks along the ocean trail. It was lightly sprinkling so we took our umbrella with us (good thing--because it sprinkled hard some of the time). The ocean was so beautiful and we saw a full rainbow over it. Gavin had fun finding worms and snails and cool snail trails through the sand (see picture below!). He also found lots of sand crabs hopping around that he tried to catch. We petted each dog that passed our way and watched the surfers rising and falling with the waves. We decided that we wanted to surf and Gavin asked me if even old people like me could surf! (: We had a great walk and came home just in time for a warm bath before it was time for Gavin to go to preschool. I love having this time with my sweet little Gavin.
Albert helps Will make a shot.
