Date night & gender reveal

Jim and I had another date night last night – two dates in four nights! So fun! I had planned for us to go to Barrington’s for dinner, knowing they would help me make the gender reveal a fun surprise that wasn’t overwhelming. Jim really wanted to know the gender but didn’t want to have a party or anything, and I didn’t want to know the gender, but am always up for a night out, so this was a good compromise. The ultrasound appointment was yesterday morning; the baby looks great! Then we picked Molly up from camp early, went to lunch uptown and then spent the afternoon at Discovery Place. It was such a FUN afternoon. When we got home, I had to run a quick errand for a customer and I swung by Barrington’s to drop off the gender results. The sous chef was excited to be part of the surprise! When we got in the car to head to dinner, Jim said he was a little anxious about the surprise I had planned, then he joked we should just go to Chick-fil-a. I told him if he wanted to know the gender of the baby, he better not stop at Chick-fil-a! After a lovely dinner, we ordered dessert (the cobbler is our absolute favorite!) and this is what was brought to the table:

Even though Jim and I both thought it was a boy, we just weren’t prepared for a boy! It was quiet for a minute while we processed the information and the staff at Barrington’s came over to congratulate us. And then we headed to the mall to find something for boy-ish for Baby G. Jim picked out the babe’s first pj’s – blue striped Hannah Andersson. We had to make ourselves look at the blue stuff since we are so used to picking out pink!

We told Molly this morning she was going to have a brother and her first response was, “No, it’s a girl.” But by lunchtime, she seemed to have accepted the fact it’s a baby brother and even circled the B’s on her word search at lunch in honor of baby brother. She’s going to be a fabulous big sister; I tear up just thinking about the amazing gift of a sibling!

Ok, so now that we’ve announced the gender, we have no idea about the nursery or the name or anything else, so hopefully this is enough information for now! And rest assured that any name Molly {or Jim, for that matter} gives you is NOT the name. We would be crazy to tell her; we might as well take out a full page ad in the Charlotte Observer!

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Make your pick – blue or pink?

Jim and I are going to the anatomy ultrasound this morning. Surprisingly, Jim is the one who wants to know the gender this time around. Both of us kind of think girl, although I’ve been leaning more toward boy recently. Molly is determined it’s a sister for her; she told me if it was a boy baby, she would just have a girl!

A lot of my friends also think it’s another girl, although one of my sisters thinks it’s a boy. What do you think? For full disclosure, I was as sick if not more so with this pregnancy as I was with Molly and I have had the same rash/reaction on my back that I had last time. I have not had a reaction to my rings yet, however, and last time I had a massive reaction on my left hand to my wedding rings.

Cast your vote below.

Jim and I are going out to dinner tonight and plan to find out then what the gender is, so no texts or phone calls this afternoon because we won’t know!

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Molly’s Christmas Wish

Many of you who check in on the blog probably received my email yesterday with our exciting news.

And to answer some questions: Yes, I’m pregnant. And yes, I’m due in December. I am 14 weeks; the due date is December 18. I’m anxious about ruining Molly’s Christmas, but also pretty confident this baby won’t be here before Christmas which means I’m worrying about nothing (big surprise, I know!).

I’m finally feeling somewhat better, as in I haven’t vomited in three days and I actually ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner today. It’s been a rough few months, but I expected it to be seeing as how I was pretty sick with Molly, too. Molly has watched more t.v. than I’d like, and she spent a few weeks following me around, pretending to throw up and telling me that the baby in her tummy hurt too. Somehow, I know she’ll be okay and hopefully forget about these things.

Molly has already been SO sweet to the baby, rubbing my (already seemingly huge!) belly and giving kisses and hugs. She also likes to tell random people at Target that we have babies in our tummies. The other day at the pool, I was wearing a tankini and Molly asked me, “Why are you covering up the baby?” She has all kinds of funny comments and thoughts surrounding the new baby, so stay tuned for more updates soon.

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