After letting the whole world know first, I can finally blog about our 20 week appointment.

The big reveal was quite delayed. The majority of people according to various polls had predicted a baby girl. If you remember my previous blog post, I actually assumed the opposite of the majority would be true. And low and behold, IT's A BOY! Baby boy was bashful and after 20 minutes of trying to get him to spread his legs for a peek, he finally gave us the goods for only a split second! Our tech was 100 percent certain he was all boy. Everything looked normal. He weighed in at 11 ounces, 11 inches and had a heart rate of 158 beats per minute. Mom and Dad are soo excited to be having a son! An added plus, the Carr name will not end with Chris either, pretty exciting for his family.




Meanwhile, here is my progress:

•Overall weight gain=5 lbs. Not too bad for 20 weeks, but still a little shocking.
•Blood pressure 110 over 77.
•Next appointment in 4weeks, Monday, December 20th.

• We do have oranges after all! They look a lot more orange and not so yellow in person.

• My health. Feeling blessed for not being sick when everyone around me seems to be.
• Lots and lots of energy and the urge to clean everything!
• One of my best friends getting engaged. Wohoo so happy for you girl! Ha and you said you would never get married. ;)
• Only one short weekend left before we see our sweet little angel again! Yay for Monday.

Counting down... only 5 days left!

Christmas shopping yet anybody?

Well if so, here are some great gift ideas I gathered up for you (well for me and now I am sharing). Have some ideas of your own? Don't be shy. Please share!

These days my dreams have started to look a little something like the following...







Pretty scary stuff! Funny to watch, scary to imagine as your life!

I am grateful this week (and last week, oops I missed one!) for ...

• Our blood work came back normal from the Quad Test.

• A peek at my birthday present! Can't wait to use it... hint: It is made by Canon. :)

• Nesting. It is most definitely serving its purpose of calming my nerves and keeping me busy. Check out what I did with our "catch-all" closet and future nursery closet. I am still patting my own back over this one. It took me months of courage building to tackle this task.

• A plethora of Halloween visitors (we ran out of candy in the 1st hour- yowzers!) but only one qualified for the Carr special treatment, cutest skeleton ever! See more pictures of Dean in his costume here.

• Finally being caught up on all of my reading, and yes it was a lot. Here is a look at our coffee table at the moment.

Since I have been searching high and low for "THE" name for our child, I have stumbled across some really interesting websites and name lists. Among the many was a compiled list of real celebrity names, as in the ones we know them by are FAKE. Okay, so I knew MC Hammer was not a real name, but some of these really surprised me. I have included just a few to rattle your brain, but if you want to see the full list, which is quite long, go here. I feel like I just woke up on Christmas morning and caught my dad putting gifts from Santa under the tree, so deceived... My favorite transformation is Elton John, which one's yours?

• Tiger Woods' real name is... Eldrick Woods
• John Wayne's real name is... Marion Michael Morrison
• Shania Twain's real name is...Eileen Regina Edwards
• Tina Turner's real name is...  Anna Mae Bullock
• Gene Simmons' real name is...Chaim Witz
• Charlie Sheen's real name is...Carlos Irwin Estevez
• Tupac Shakur's real name is...Lesane Parish Crooks
• Jane Seymour's real name is...Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg
• Freddy Prinze's real name is...Frederick Karl Pruetzel
• Chuck Norris' real name is...  Carlos Ray
• Demi Moore's real name is... Demetria Gene Guynes
• Marilyn Monroe's real name is...Norma Jeane Mortenson
• Larry King's real name is...Lawrence Harvey Zeiger
• Elton John's real name is...Reginald Kenneth Dwight
• Macy Gray's real name is...Natalie Renee McIntyre
• Cary Grant's real name is...Archibald Leach
• Whoopi Goldberg's real name is...Caryn Elaine Johnson
• Lady Gaga's real name is...Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta
• Jamie Foxx's real name is...Eric Bishop
• Miley Cyrus' real name is...Destiny Hope Cyrus
• Tom Cruise's real name is...Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
• Jennifer Aniston's real name is...Jennifer Linn Anastassakis

No surprises here, I am having a hard time waiting to find out Baby C's gender, especially since someone new asks me every day when I will be finding out (not for 3 more weeks!). Needless to say I am trying to find out without actually finding out, if that makes sense. :) I figure whatever the majority of people say it must be the opposite, yes I know my thinking is a little skewed these days. So far the doctor, our friend Mark, and Chris's grandpa have predicted boy. The majority of my work pool (winning by 1) and our friend Sarah have predicted girl. After taking 3 different online quizzes (with some very strange questions I might add), the internet said we are having:




So it looks like the internet majority has predicted a girl. That leaves me at a tie. Only solution was to start another poll... can you tell I am dying to know here? A friend even suggested that I go have an ultrasound at the vet (one of my best friend's dad is the vet).... haha. Okay I won't go that far and seriously I can wait, but I am uber curious what everyone else thinks so take the poll please! It's on the right sidebar.