Suggestions Needed!

Last night was the first night that we tried putting Chase to bed in his big boy bed. At first I thought it was going to go pretty well. He was very excited about his new room and new bed, that is until it was time to go to sleep. He had a blast playing in there, but once we turned off his lights and told him it was time for night-night, he freaked out and was terrified. After about 45 mintues of trying to get him to lay down, we went back into the nursery and he went down in his crib in a matter of minutes.

Does anyone have any big boy bed transition advice?

Fun Sunday

Here is a picture of Chase giving his baby brother a sweet big brother kiss. Let's just hope he's this loving once the baby is actually here: Here is a video of something I thought would never happen! Chase has never been the kind of child to sit in his crib and play. This morning he wanted me to put him in his crib so he could read his potty book (but he made me sit in the room with him). It was so cute because he has most of it memorized and it sounded like he was actually reading it. I know most of you cannot understand what he's saying, but I could totally understand him (but I also have that book memorized) :-)

Silly Chase

Chase's new obsession is to squeeze behind the pillows on my sofa. They are constantly on the floor and I'm always finding a toy stuffed down in the cushions. He's so funny!

Big Boy Bed

We just received the BIG BOY bed we ordered for Chase. We haven't tried putting him to bed in it yet, as his room still isn't finished. But we've been letting him play in there trying to get used to his new room!

Yesterday Shane took Chase to the USM football game. He said Chase had so much fun. They met MawMaw and Pops at the game and Pops bought Chase a new Eagle hat. Chase LOVES his new hat. It says one size fits all, but they didn't figure the size of Chase's noggin when they put that size on there :-) Maybe Santa will bring him a larger size for his head because for now his toy Seymour the Eagle has been wearing that new Eagles hat around the house!

20 Weeks!

Here is my 20 week progression picuture. There certainly has been some serious growth since my last progression pic 5 weeks ago! I am feeling great and happy to know that we are halfway there to meeting our little peanut!

Also, most of you know how much Chase loves his blankie, LuLu. We have about 5 of them at home, but he's only allowed one at a time. Well Chase found where we were storing all the extra LuLus the other day and was in heaven! He ran into the kitchen with the biggest smile on his face, holding tight to all his blankies. It was quite the struggle to get him back down to one LuLu at a time!

Huge News!

Yesterday, Shane and I had our big 20 week ultrasound and doctor's appointment.
And the emotional rollercoaster goes like this...

During the ultrasound, I told the ultrasound tech that we do not want to know the sex of the baby, we do not want our doctor to know, do not write the sex down in our file and please refer to the baby as a "he" during the ultrasound to eliminate any confusion.

The ultrasound goes great. Our little peanut is measuring at exactly our due date of March 27th, has two hands, two feet, two eyes and a cute nose! It was so amazing! She said that everything looked wonderful and the baby is weighing in at 10.5 ounces!

After the ultrasound we went into the exam room for my appointment. The nurse who usually works is not there, so they have someone who normally works the front desk filling in for her. She came into the room, opened my file and saw a Christmas card with a picture of Chase. She said, "Oh, I see you already have a beautiful little boy. And now you're going to have a girl".

WHAT?!?!?! I immediately started crying and Shane was in a state of shock. The poor nurse felt so bad, she had no idea we didn't want to know the sex of the baby. After I get over the shock of just finding out, I become a bit more emotional, elated at the fact that the McCarthy's are going to finally have a girl! Shane's first reaction was, "Oh my gosh, this is going to be so expensive"!

I heard the nurse go into my doctor's office where she opened my file and said, "Oh, they are going to have a girl". The nurse replied by telling my doctor that we didn't want to know and that I was crying in the other room. My doctor called us into her office.

She told me that we still didn't know the sex of the baby and that the automatic default for the ultrasound was female and that's why our file said girl. Normally the ultrasound tech has to initial the sex, but she did not in our case. Nor did she take any pictures of the genitalia area. My doctor tried to assure us that we still did not know the sex of the baby.

Shane and I started to leave the office feeling like we just got hit with a truck. We are now thinking that this is a horrible cover up story and they are just trying to make us feel better. Neither one of us wanted it to happen this way, and at this point we feel like we need to find out for sure what is going on to settle me down.

So we head back into the office and the ultrasound tech was at the front desk. We told her what happened and said that we wanted to know for sure what the sex was. She said with a smile, “Okay, it’s a boy…clear as day”!

So that is the story of how we unfortunately found out the sex of our little peanut and I cannot believe we are having another boy! Shane is relieved and now I am in a state of shock! I can’t believe I will have two boys!

I still feel very disappointed that we now know the baby’s sex, but I am elated to know that my family is expanding and everything looked great with our little peanut!

Here are the two ultrasound pics they sent home with us. The top picture is a front view where you can see his two eyes and nose. The bottom picture is a side view of our precious baby! We do not currently have an “It’s a boy” pic because we weren’t supposed to know. Hopefully for my next appointment they can squeeze me in and give me a confirmation pic.
Click on the pic get a closer view of our baby boy!