Kochs + 1: Boy or Girl, and Birthday

Fast forward two days from when we arrived in Texas…. May 13th I had my first appointment with my new OB. We had the pleasure of doing all the entry paperwork and medical and family background- again. We then got to listen to the baby’s heartbeat again (sounds good, but the baby doesn’t like when I lay on my back). I also got quite a few tubes of blood drawn, for routine checks and also for some genetic marker testing (voluntary). Tony and I were really hoping that we would be able to find out the sex of the baby at this appointment. They weren’t sure if they would be able to give me an ultrasound that day and then another one a few weeks later when they needed to make sure that all the anatomy was formed correctly. I was measuring at 18 weeks, and they generally do all the checking a few weeks later on. We waited patiently, and were rewarded with being able to get an ultrasound that day! The pictures we got were awesome, the baby had really grown since the first ultrasound we had!

The technician asked us if we wanted to know the sex of the baby. We were so excited! As we were watching the screen she typed “It’s A Boy!”

We were a little shocked to say the least. I think we were both expecting a girl, based on our both our families female output. We were both really happy. We couldn’t wait to tell our families. Fortunately for my side of the family it was impossible to tell them all at the same time, so they each got phone calls (my sister first because of extensive begging). Poor Tony’s family. They wanted to know so badly, but we wanted to tell them all together, so we decided to have dinner together. Tony and I went out and bought pink, blue and white frosted cupcakes. We also got “It’s a boy” and “It’s a girl” toppers to poke into each cupcake.

After successfully avoiding the question all dinner long we broke out the cupcakes. We asked each person to pick the cupcake with the gender they thought the baby was. After everyone picked Tony and I each grabbed a ‘boy’ cupcake to express the actual gender. There was quite an uproar! Everyone was so excited (especially his dad)!

We then enjoyed the cupcakes and some board games. It was a fantastic day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZhUta7h3Ow
A video Nicki took of the revealing. Pretty awesome.

Oh, we had decided on names before we found out the sex of the baby. So, his name is going to be Matthew Ross; Matty for short. We picked that name because one of my Grandpa’s nicknames was Matty, and Tony’s family middle name is Ross. We thought it was a nice tribute to both of our families.

Two days later it was officially the best day of the year; May 15th. Tony and I went out to breakfast together. Then we started on preparations for Athena’s luau party. Yes, she and I share the best birth date. The pool party was awesome and I ate my first hot dog in many, many years.