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I interrupt my normal schedule of attempting to blog these photos in order, but this post couldn’t wait.  We’re having a BOY!!!!!!!!!!  We are beyond thrilled and can’t wait for Harper to meet her little brother.

I’m still kind of in shock…obviously it’s a 50/50 chance but we really, really, really wanted a boy and cannot believe that there’s a little dude in there.  Over the moon excited.

I know, I know…if it was a girl, that would have been just as exciting (especially for Harper – a girl needs sisters, right?!), and all that matters is that the baby is healthy, but I am full on admitting that we hoped and wished and prayed for a little boy.  And since he is a HE, my gender guilt can just go away, ha!

What about you guys?  Was the gender no big deal for your baby, or were you like me and could not wait for that mid-point ultrasound because the anticipation was KILLING you?  It felt like Christmas in July (to us) when that day finally came!

I have to admit, though, after the ultrasound we went to the doctor’s waiting room (because I had a regular prenatal appointment right after) and there was a magazine on the table with a certain female celebrity on the cover, whose name we chose as our girl’s name, and I felt a little sad that I’m probably never going to get to name my girl that.  Because it would have been awesome.  And I totally had vivid pregnancy dreams about having a baby girl and in my dream I told everyone her name after she was born.  :)

Thanks for reading!

Oh…you want to know my girl name?  :)  Her name would have been Bryce Pearl.  So the actress Bryce Dallas Howard was on the cover of the magazine…and my grandpa used to call me Lindsay Pearl, so that’s where the middle name came from.  Bryce the girl…I really, really liked it.  But we’ll have our boy in a few short months, so I’ll get over it!

Photos by the awesome Elaine West.