Baby Carlson is....

....officially a little pill! I hope baby's behaivor on Thursday isn't a harbinger of baby's personality!

I was so excited to find out what our little bug was, I slept even less than usual (thank you baby for sitting directly on my bladder every night:).

Paul and I showed up to the doctors' office, anticipating the moment we would find out baby's gender.

But....baby was cuddled up in the very furthest corner possible, to the point where the ultrasound tech had to push the wand around to get the baby to move...no luck. The ultrasound tech then put me at a steep incline (head down), which caused my back to arch in a weird position and blood to rush to my head - super uncomfy, and baby STILL wouldn't move! We saw snapshots of baby's arms, baby's hands, baby's legs (which were all curled up and protecting baby's little secret). We even saw baby yawn (clearly we were interrupting nap or sleepy time, pardon us, your adoring, loving parents who would just like to know how to better prepare for baby's arrival!).

After much prodding, poking and multiple, multiple, multiple clicks and images of our undercover agent baby, the tech asked "You want to know the gender of your baby?" Paul was literally on the edge of his seat beside the table (which had been raised a bit so I could see the screen)....

So in the end, baby did cooperate and was forced to share; we will be having a little baby BOY joining our family this autumn!

We now must search for the perfect name! In the mean time (as we are so cool) we are calling baby Optimus Paul:)