The Big Day...Boy or Girl Revealed!

Today was an amazing day! We were able to see our little one for 45 minutes during a detailed ultrasound. We saw the baby's heart, lips, legs arms, heart - it's little face :). The nurse spent time explaining to us what we were seeing and assuring to us the whole time that measurements were normal and on target. She was having a hard time getting a clear picture of our little one's face and told us we had an active baby that didn't want to sit still! Oh no!! We have heard that twice now - we are in trouble when they start walking! I can just hear it now "Mr & Mrs Matthews your child will not stay in their seat" and I am going to tell them, "Yep we've heard that since the womb!"

We were so thrilled to hear that our baby is right on target and very healthy. I was praising the Lord throughout the ultrasound for this miracle that he has blessed us with. For its little arms and how they move, the quickness of the heartbeat and even the way our baby likes to make us work for a good photo. You can see its character already and know that God has formed that in his most perfect image. Everything about our little one has been determined before we even knew they were ours and how excited we are to find out all about them!
So we know you are all dying to know what this precious little one is! We made my parents, Jenny, and even Matt via the phone wait until they came over for dinner tonight. Here are some pictures of the set up...

We had bought three baby food jars and emptied them of their baby food, and then got all different kinds of pink and blue candy. We filled up each of the jars with different candy and different amounts of pink and blue so they couldn't team up and have one person count pink and another person count blue. We really made them work for it! All of the jars had more of one color than the other so they would know if it there was more pink it was a girl and more blue a boy.

It was really fun to watch them pour out the pink and blue candy and count away. My mom figured it out first and whispered to me what it was and then Jenny figured it out and screamed... IT'S A BOY!!!!

Counting away.... Mom is almost done.... It's a BOY!!!!
The candy on the plates after it has been counted and Eric giving Matt the play by play...

Finally, here are our happy faces with our little man's "gender" picture, and the picture up close! Can't wait to celebrate with all of you. The name is soon to come! Stay tuned.