BOY!!
We've named him Jesse which means 'Jehovah Exists!'
We got to see him yawn, his heart beat and watch him wiggle around and move his hands!!
The ultrasound tec was very helpful and talkative and told us what she was looking at the whole time which is really nice and helpful as it's so easy to get lost when she's moving her ultrasound wand around. Everything looks great and he is about 1lb 3 oz already! She did not change my due date which is nice and I believe the 1st time we've kept the same due date after an ultrasound. She also gave us a picture that she dubbed "Dad's proof" which is just that!! I still can hardly believe Papa was right again.. he tells me what we are having weeks into the pregnancy and he's RIGHT every time!! It's crazy!! Maybe next time I'll believe him :) This time I had no idea what it was so I'm just glad we did find out.
When the ultrasound was mostly done the tec sent me to the bathroom and while I was gone she asked Papa how old our kids were. She knew we had 4 already from our talking. So Papa told her that our oldest is 6, and so forth.. she stammered for a minute then said to him, "But you look so NORMAL!!" We both got a real kick out of that. There were two Mennonite ladies, one who had baby pictures and one who was waiting for her ultrasound when we left.. so we think that's what she meant.. that we weren't Mennonites. :)
E has really thought this was a girl and even prayed at night.. 'Thank you for the new baby sister.' Surprisingly she was not upset that the baby was a boy. Just very matter of fact about the whole thing. And only last night she prayed "Thank you for Jesse!" I just asked her what was the baby's name and she said 'Jesse' so I asked her if it was a boy or a girl and she said "GIRL." So maybe she has not come as far as I thought! All the kids like the name which is good. L was quite serious that we should name it George if it was a boy :) Papa told him flat out one night that WE ARE NOT NAMING A BABY GEORGE!! Maybe a dog or something. L just laughed and said something about him naming his boy George!! EEK!
After the ultrasound we did some stuff in the 'city'. We walked thru our local second hand store and found a VHS of Beauty and the Beast for Grandma F's house for $4 and a really neat wooden picture frame with 2 large ovals on the top and 12 little hearts on the bottom for $5!! I've always wanted one like that! We got our backs put in (1st time in 12 years I'd been that Chiropractor and 4 years since I'd been at all! ) as I'd thrown mine out horrible the week before and Papa's shoulder is still bothering him. We always like to walk after an appointment so we headed out for a walk and an hour later and a quick stop for coffee and a square we made it back to the car and went to the local bulk grocery store and got several boxes of bulk stuff for our 'short' time when Papa will be going to school. We got a boxes of apples, oranges, potatoes, 2 kinds of pasta, (12, 900mg bags in each) a 1 gallon bucket of minced garlic, (nasty smelling up my whole house!) and a flat of large tomato sauce tins, (as we just ran out of our homemade stuff) and a few other things. At the grocery store we also saw a friend and got to show off the pictures of Jesse :)
By then it was 5 o'clock and we took ourselves out to our favorite restaurant and had a wonderful supper and named our newest little Griggs. Strangely enough this is the 1st time we have gone in with 2 names (1 of each) and come out with another name.. not on the list. It's taken me a little getting used too! I had stuffed mushrooms and Papa had mussels for our appys and Papa had lobster and I had a seafood platter as our meals!! We both had Cesar salad and a twice baked potato with our meals and shared a slice of ice cream pie for dessert!! Yummo!! All in all it was a wonderful day and it reminded me a bit of our 10 year trip. Walking, shopping and eating without the kids. They would have loved it but it wouldn't have been the same besides we did have one with us.. and he was very good the whole time!! :)
E has really thought this was a girl and even prayed at night.. 'Thank you for the new baby sister.' Surprisingly she was not upset that the baby was a boy. Just very matter of fact about the whole thing. And only last night she prayed "Thank you for Jesse!" I just asked her what was the baby's name and she said 'Jesse' so I asked her if it was a boy or a girl and she said "GIRL." So maybe she has not come as far as I thought! All the kids like the name which is good. L was quite serious that we should name it George if it was a boy :) Papa told him flat out one night that WE ARE NOT NAMING A BABY GEORGE!! Maybe a dog or something. L just laughed and said something about him naming his boy George!! EEK!
After the ultrasound we did some stuff in the 'city'. We walked thru our local second hand store and found a VHS of Beauty and the Beast for Grandma F's house for $4 and a really neat wooden picture frame with 2 large ovals on the top and 12 little hearts on the bottom for $5!! I've always wanted one like that! We got our backs put in (1st time in 12 years I'd been that Chiropractor and 4 years since I'd been at all! ) as I'd thrown mine out horrible the week before and Papa's shoulder is still bothering him. We always like to walk after an appointment so we headed out for a walk and an hour later and a quick stop for coffee and a square we made it back to the car and went to the local bulk grocery store and got several boxes of bulk stuff for our 'short' time when Papa will be going to school. We got a boxes of apples, oranges, potatoes, 2 kinds of pasta, (12, 900mg bags in each) a 1 gallon bucket of minced garlic, (nasty smelling up my whole house!) and a flat of large tomato sauce tins, (as we just ran out of our homemade stuff) and a few other things. At the grocery store we also saw a friend and got to show off the pictures of Jesse :)
By then it was 5 o'clock and we took ourselves out to our favorite restaurant and had a wonderful supper and named our newest little Griggs. Strangely enough this is the 1st time we have gone in with 2 names (1 of each) and come out with another name.. not on the list. It's taken me a little getting used too! I had stuffed mushrooms and Papa had mussels for our appys and Papa had lobster and I had a seafood platter as our meals!! We both had Cesar salad and a twice baked potato with our meals and shared a slice of ice cream pie for dessert!! Yummo!! All in all it was a wonderful day and it reminded me a bit of our 10 year trip. Walking, shopping and eating without the kids. They would have loved it but it wouldn't have been the same besides we did have one with us.. and he was very good the whole time!! :)
