Its a....BOY!!!!

I went for my Level II ultrasound (due to Advanced Maternal Age) on Thursday and the tech was pretty confident that Lucas McLeod Robertson will be joining the Robertson clan this fall! Mom went with me and she's beyond excited about her new grandson. She didn't get to see any of the first three prior to their arrivals, so this was special for her. I hope that she continues to feel excited in September when I'm panicking in labor!

The doctor said that everything looks normal, so I opted to skip the amnio. I would never terminate, so I didn't see any point if there weren't any visible defects. He has none of the markers that present in Downs babies, but I do understand that ultrasounds are only 50% accurate for Downs. I'm going to trust and pray that God won't give me more than I can handle - and see, there's still only one baby, so God looks to know what He's doing so far.

Now, most everyone in the family is pleased that there will be another boy joining us. All, that is, except my Granny. She dreamt this baby was a girl and until I deliver it will be a girl to her. I expect to get some frilly, pink items from her, but I'll put the away with all of Charli's left-over baby clothes and hope that sometime I'll be able to give Luke a little sister. Granny also hates the fact that I'm using "McLeod", which was my Granddaddy Robertson's middle name (and also his mom's maiden name - Annie Laura McLeod). Granny says that none of us has honored her and used her maiden name of "Dean." Well, I'm not touching that one, but my baby boy will be Lucas McLeod.

It was a bit of a surprise to me how sentimental I got over the weekend packing-up all of Charli's baby clothes and blankets that I still had here. I didn't see any point when they moved to Mom & Dad's to send anything that she'd already outgrown. So I have a plethora of newborn thru 9-months clothes, plus blankets, towels, washclothes, bibs, etc. in the prettiest pinks that will go into storage.

When I found-out in January that I was having a baby, I somehow expected the baby to be a boy. I guess its one of those mother's intuition things. But, somewhere in the back of my mind, I think I secretly longed for a girl. If you've shopped for a boy lately, you can understand some of my dilemma...there are not that many 'cute' things for a boy.

I'm coming around, though, and did buy some onesies and sleepers on Thursday in blues and greens. I just don't know how I'm going to get around my 'no characters' rule when I look at anything over 9-months and it all seems to be Thomas, Cars, Spiderman or Deigo. At least there's a lot of 'baseball' options - as long as it doesn't say "Daddy's Team" like the one sleeper my mom picked-up on Thursday!