ITS A BOY - 18 weeks

i can hardly contain myself. i have been on cloud nine since 4pm!!
yes, its a boy. his name is josiah benjamin. YES I FINALLY REVEALED! bust out the blue. bring on the trucks and drills (haha letty!). time to prepare for spit balls and mud fights and things being thrown at me. YES. seriously, i am all about this kid. bring it on!

bens super excited its a boy. i knew he would be! i ofcourse went straight from the dr. to target. i was bummed to find that they did not carry infant chucks. COME ON people...i will have to find them elsewhere. but i did buy johnson & johnson baby lotion, because ive always loved the smell..its the official baby smell. then i bought the bath wrap hoodie, blue...its like a shark or something, i dont know it was an uber adorable towel that you wrap them in after a bath. OMG. oh and then i went to kohls just to browse (secretly hoping THEY had infant chucks), and found a super cute little blue/white striped chaps onsie w/legs. i am going to be that picky mom. i will not, i repeat...will not be buying anything that has cartoon characters or baseball bats or planes or trucks or soccer balls on it...im all about stripes and solids. to each his own, right?? i figure im going to let him decide when the time comes whether he even likes baseball or soccer or planes or trucks. i dont wanna force anything on him, lol...

a few things going on with my this week: so funny. i had a few photo shoots in tallahassee over the weekend. well, by the end of the two days i had almost fallen/tripped FOUR times AND pulled a muscle in my back that is still ailing me. haha. my equilibrium is like, way off. im really not a clumsy person...until now! and then i read my weekly baby update thing and it says:
"Starting to feel a bit off balance? As your belly grows, your center of gravity changes, so you may begin to occasionally feel a little unsteady on your feet. Try to avoid situations with a high risk of falling". haha. so its bad that i carried and climbed up and down a step-stool for 2 hours at my engagement shoot yesterday? yea thats no good, i seriously almost ate it a few times. GREAT! the only other thing is i feel like ive grown a TON in the last 2 weeks. i dont have a picture today, but i'll get one up this week and you can see for yourself.

to end with, i thought i'd regale the story of our sonogram today. suffice it to say i have to go back in two weeks because junior wouldnt let us get a good shot of his mouth and nose, which ya know, those are important to make sure that they are there. so anyways, after she told us it was a boy and we both were like "hahaha told ya!! YES".....josiah proceeded to make finding everything incredibly difficult. the kid was standing on his head half the time, and doing back flips in my womb. seriously! she'd try to find something and he'd be like, eh, you're annoying me...and freaking flip over! he was a wild man! and this all to say that....i now know that this is bens child. oh Lord Jesus help me.

thats all for now folks!! YAYA FOR BOYS!