This is Tom.
Jenny asked me to take a swing at this whole blog thing.
Here it goes!
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As far as pregnancy goes, we've found that there are a lot of surprises. We know that there are many more to come, so we're just starting to get a taste of life's little surprises in child rearing.
Jenny hates surprises. There have been Christmases where we've gone out shopping for presents for others, and Jenny has decided that she wants something, bought it, and then given it to me to wrap. She's bought presents for me before and told me what the present was with only the littlest bit of prodding. I am more on the traditional side of receiving surprises where I want to know what the surprise is, but I don't actually want you to tell me. When it came to knowing about our baby's gender, there was no question that she wanted to know as soon as humanly possible, and I've always wanted to know that, too, since I like to plan ahead. We decided that we would for sure found out when possible.
When we started sharing the news that Jenny was pregnant, many people guessed the gender of our baby. Almost every single person guessed that it would be a girl. A few notable exceptions are my grandma Carol, my dad (especially once he saw the ultrasound picture), one of the former CFL players that came out to Edmonton to be a part of my work's Celebrity Golf Tournament that I was helping to organize, one of Jenny's colleagues at work (Queen Jean), and our family friend Becky! The other majority of the guesses were that it would be a girl.
Jenny's two cents:
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GENDER REVEAL!!! Eeeekkk I am so excited to share with you all who baby Pasterfield will be! Are you hating that we are putting you through actually reading something? Like Tom said before, I hate surprises. If I were someone reading this blog, I'd likely just scroll to the bottom to the pictures. For those of you who have patience, bless you. So! At the beginning of my pregnancy, I wanted to guess what I was having. At first, I was sure a baby girl was on the way (but that feeling eventually switched). I was so sick and I was convinced that severe morning sickness = girl, and the heartbeat was always so high at our ultrasounds - my doctor guessed girl, my Executive Director (who was an ER doc for many years) guessed girl. My whole family thought it was a girl. But right around week 14/15 when my morning sickness subsided, I wasn't so sure anymore! I started to feel like there might be a little boy in there! I had no idea what to expect, and the wait from 15-20 weeks was miserable (not really. I am being highly dramatic. I just wanted to know who was growing in me!) I wanted to go for our gender ultrascan at 18 weeks, but the booking lady wouldn't book me in until 20 weeks. I'm not one for arguing, so I just said "Okay, ma'am" and we booked exactly at 20 weeks. The whole ultrasound was so nerve wracking! The last time we had seen our little nugget on the screen, he or she was just a little shrimp baby with a flickering heartbeat. For the first 40 minutes, the ultrasound tech didn't say anything, and I couldn't see the screen. So I was just laying there like "uhhh, is everything ok over there?!?!" Then she told me that baby had a healthy heartbeat of 154 bpm and that baby was super active! She went to get Tom from the waiting room, and Tom came in and we got to see baby together for the first time. Our little shrimp baby nugget turned into a BABY!
I know I'm biased, but I think that is the cutest cutest little nose! And my favorite was when the ultrasound tech showed us their cute little feet and 10 little toes. Eeeeek. Watching baby squirm around was so surreal. I was like, are you sure that's in MY belly??? I can't wait to meet this little human!!!!
OKAY! Now for the reveal. Hawai'i holds such a special place in my heart, and we really wanted to do a Hawai'i themed gender reveal while on our baby moon here in Maui. Shave ice here is ridiculously delicious. (and if your only experience with shaved ice is the snow cone you get at hockey games, then you are totally missing out). So we thought why not get a yummy treat and do a fun gender reveal at the same time?!?! Big thanks to Ululanis Shave Ice for helping us out with this! P.s - if you come to Maui, you seriously have to get the cotton candy shave ice with condensed milk on top. It was so amazingly delicious.
What will it be? Almost time to see...
bouncing little he or a pretty little she?!!?!
We're having a BABY BOY, and we're SO excited!!!
We can't wait to meet you, little man. <3
Stay tuned for more updates! We *think* we have a name picked out, but that will have to wait!
