It's A BOY!

We had our ultrasound on Thursday night (the 6th) and it's a BOY! When we first found out we were pregnant, I couldn't really fathom having a girl. The thought of having three little boys so close in age (18 months and 15 months) running around together just seems perfect. Leland and Caius have started to pay a lot of attention to each other lately. They've even started having conversations! I love to watch them sitting together and playing together, and I love to imagine one more little boy doing everything with them, and imitating them. What's hard to imagine is another personality! Leland is certainly an active little boy, but is definitely more of a cuddler than Caius ever was. He started cooing and babbling pretty early, and I have always been able to tell that he is really fascinated with language and sound. He likes to "mmm-ahhh-hmm" along to his bedtime songs. Caius has always been loving but far more interested in all the things he could be getting in to than in me or Neal. He developed his gross motor skills pretty young. He was born already able to hold his head up, and seems to learn new things quickly. Caius has an abundance of energy and keeps himself active all day long. It is fun to think of what our newest little boy will be like. He is bound to have an entirely different personality than Cai or Leland. I am halfway there to being able to hold him, and I am getting really excited to meet him, and learn him. :)

Here is his profile picture. His forehead looks longer than Cai's and Leland's ultrasound photos, so we are predicting that he will inherit Neal's fivehead. I love the thought of having little miniature Neals! Leland has turned out to look the most like Neal but doesn't have the same forehead/face shape. I have to say this his little profile is adorable, and they only get cuter!

Proof of gender! We weren't able to tell right away that he was a boy. With Caius and Leland both, we saw a little something almost immediately. In the beginning of the ultrasound we watched him move around a little and bring his feet up to his head. He was being so flexible! Toward the end we watched him practice sucking and swallowing fluid, and then he went to sleep and didn't want to be bothered. :)

Here I am at 20 weeks! HALFWAY!!!! I am feeling pretty good. No more morning sickness! With Leland I had something called Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction which is really really painful. Almost debilitating. I was prepared to have it again and had a potential treatment plan, but there haven't been any signs of it returning which I am SO happy about. With Caius, my morning sickness let up a little after the first trimester but never went away. It isn't easy to be pregnant, but I've had it a lot worse than I do right now, so I am not complaining!