Samuel

It was so cool to meet our little boy yesterday. We went to this tiny clinic that had one room: half a reception room, and an examination room in the back, separated from reception by a divider.

The first thing the lady looked for was the sex, since we told her we wanted to know. And Samuel cooperated beautifully, giving us a bottoms-up shot (sort of the view the toliet bowl would have, you know), that showed absolutely everything. Not NEARLY so modest as his big sister was. So we got to spend the rest of the ultrasound happy in the knowledge that we'd be parents of not just daughters, but sons too.

And Adam got to feel him kick for the first time too. Sam was asleep, I think, at the beginning of the ultrasound, but halfway through he woke up and started to kick. So I took Adam's hand, and put it on my belly, and he got to feel Sam kick while watching him kick at the same time.

Sam kicked, and showed off his fingers and toes, and drank some of the amniotic fluid (he looked for all the world like he was trying to nurse in utero), and we saw his hearting beating away beautifully.

He's also got a great start on his baby book, because we paid the $5 extra and got a DVD of the whole session. So if you want to see a baby video, we'd be glad to show our second kiddo off. He's beautiful.

-Jess