Boy or Girl?

Ahh, the great debate. Deciding whether or not you wish to find out the sex of your baby. Mike and I were at odds on this one. He really wanted to find out, and I really wanted to be surprised. My husband is super logistical and is a planner, and I am much more emotionally driven. He said that he wanted to know the sex so he could get the nursery done, and he just really wanted to know if we were having a son or daughter so he could mentally prepare himself haha. I, on the other hand, really wanted to be surprised. I honestly was not wishing for one sex over the other, I genuinely was so happy either way and knew that as soon as they put that baby on my chest that I was going to fall so deep in love whether it was a boy or whether it was a girl. But I knew that even though Mike said he didn't care either way, I knew he secretly wanted a boy. And I was kind of worried that if we found out it was a girl, that he would be a little bummed. I knew that if we kept it a surprise, and it did turn out to be a girl, that when he saw her for the first time that he would forget about ever wanting a boy. I do think it's true what they say, the women become Mothers the moment they find out they're pregnant, where the men become Dads the second that baby is born. I just didn't want Mike to be disappointed. 

We had names picked out for our girl and our boy, and even during the ultra sound where they could tell us what we were having, we asked them not to because we weren't sure if we wanted to know. After our genetics scare (you can read about that here), I really didn't want to know the sex, because God for bid if something happened, I knew I would either be losing Miles or Baby P (going to hold our girl name secret in case we are blessed with one in the future), and putting a name to the baby just made it all the more real. 

But I obviously caved, and I decided to give in and find out, I thought that decorating a nursery would give me something to do and be hopeful and have faith that the little boy or girl inside me would one day sleep in it despite all the scares we were going through.

We decided not to do a gender reveal party, that Mike and I wanted to find out just the two of us. So Mike went out and bought a pink and a blue balloon and we asked our sweet neighbors to put either a blue or pink balloon in a box and Mike and I would open it together. We went out to the backyard, (which is where Mike proposed, so it was really special to do it in the same place), and we opened the box together and found out we were expecting a sweet baby boy! We were so excited, Mike ran around the backyard fist pumping, I kid you not, and it was really cool to finally be able to put a name to the little human inside of me.

He or She? We will see!

IT'S A BOY!!!!

Bubba is so excited to have a little brother

We are so EXCITED!

Wahoo!

So the next day happened to be my birthday and we decided to do a small gender reveal for our parents. We put a onesie in a bag and had our families open them together, which was fun :) It was truly the best birthday present I could have asked for, knowing that in 5 short months I would be meeting our SON!

My brother took a couple snap chats to remember the special moment :)

Miles Grey, we couldn't wait to meet you!