Oh (Big) Brother!

Four months from the outside:

And from the inside:

Now to review the poll stats. There was an overwhelming majority predicting "girl"--78% to be exact. I was on the side of this heavy majority--the first trimester was different this time, and just like I could NEVER picture Will as a girl, I could never picture this baby as a boy.

Except...HE IS.

He's a healthy boy who really likes to stare at his skeletal fists as he opens and closes his fingers. He's been poking me for a month now, but only in the last week has he become a truly active soccer star, leading Dave to secretly start wondering if this baby was in fact the proud owner of a Y chromosome. He's perfect, and we can't wait to see how he manages to be as handsome and cheerful as his older brother!

(And maybe he'll also manage to be one of those laid-back babies I'm always hearing about? Maybe?!?)

Baby Noon's First Photo Shoot

Well, no one can accuse Baby Noon of being shy...or lazy. BN was swimming all over the place during the 18-week ultrasound. Here are some of the best shots:

Here is Baby Noon's cute-as-can-be profile at 18 weeks.

Baby Noon's footprint looks awfully large to us,
but we frankly have no idea what a fetus' footprint should
look like, so who knows?

By the end of the ultrasound, when the tech needed to check for cleft palate, BN had its chin tucked firmly into its chest and was not having it. So our tech APOLOGIZED as she asked us to come back for another ultrasound in two weeks. Um, are you kidding? We'd be happy to come back every day for more pics of the baby, if they'd only let us. Sigh. That baby is cute!

So, while we still don't know if or when we are sharing the baby's gender while it's still in utero, we do want to see what YOUR hunch is. Take a second, indulge us, and register your vote in the sidebar to the right.