The Daily Hailey

In case anyone possibly missed it, we had our 20 week ultrasound today! This morning. At 9:30. That means we all had to leave the house by 8:30. I don’t normally leave my bed by 8:30, so it was a big of a change, but the kids woke up to us moving around and were ready to go when we were! We got to the scan a bit early and were in let in almost right away.

Our tech was not a very personable lady. We like our clinic. They always take their pictures and then show us around the baby and visit with us. Its a really nice place. But she didn’t say anything. She wouldn’t even confirm a heartbeat until she got their in her order of things. She had the screen turned to her, so I paid attention to Dekker and Laela for the first chunk of the scan, until I realized she wasn’t going to show us anything. Then I watched, and saw all kinds of wonderful things about my baby. It was a really clear picture, and baby was moving sooo much! I was a bit miffed to have missed the beginning and to not have the warm fuzzy experience like every other time, but c’est la vie. What I did get to see was fabulous! We witnessed yawning, thumb sucking, and butt scratching. Yup, not even kidding. It was hysterical! And if you can’t guess by the butt scratching, we were so thrilled to discover that our baby Jim is, in fact, a baby boy 🙂 A sweet, active, uncooperative but oh so exciting little boy. My mama heart is sooo thrilled to be adding another little boy to the mix that is our family. What a fabulous tie breaker!!!

After our ultrasound, we went to Coras for brunch to celebrate. We had a fabulous server, and Dekker was very comfortable with her. She did great, and took down all of the weird specifications that come from having food out with our kids. And then I spilled an entire cup of fresh, piping hot coffee on my lap. Aaaaall over my lap. My goodness, that burned. I rushed to the bathroom to see what I could, which turned out to be not a whole lot. No hand dryer to try to dry out my pants either. So I just stuffed some paper towels between my legs and my jeans, and tried to soak some of the coffee out of my jeans from the outside as well. My shirt got a decent douse as well, but luckily, I opted for black instead of the medium grey I was debating wearing, so that was camouflaged quite a bit better. I brought some paper towels into the restaurant area and honestly, tucked them between my legs to soak up more moisture while I ate. I tried really hard not to be ticked about the whole thing. Nothing could touch me!

And whats great is that nothing did 🙂 I ran errands and had a lot of fun with my family. We saw Dr. Mike aaaaall together for the first time probably since before Dekker’s surgery in February, and Deks was chatty and content with him. Dr. Mike commented to me “Wow, this is new! Thats awesome!” It sure was. We dropped by Superstore next for more sippy cups and Dekker requested to come in with me. Just me and him. I agreed to bring him and and he did awesome! He helped pick colors, and even carried the grocery bag out to the van, all by himself. We hit our bank next and I went in to square up from our trip, convert our American money back to Canadian, stuff like that. From there, Dekker and I once again ventured out together and bought some hand soaps at Bath and Body Works. So much success so close together!

We hit up The Better Good afterwards and I bought these beautiful moccasin boots for Laela for winter. I had purchased her snow boots already, but they were horrendously overpriced and probably wouldn’t have been used too much. Also, besides those, I needed to find her some cute boots for indoors for days like today. I realized that both pairs added up would likely cost around what these beautiful ones I truly wanted would cost, and they would translate to both settings. I had deemed them “too expensive” but upon this realization, I returned the other boots and bought the ones I really loved today. I even ran into Willa there, so big win all around!

Our last stop was going to be Costco for diapers. Brady dropped me at Lawson mall so I could peruse Thyme Maternity while he took the kids to run the last of the errands. I had this fabulous coupon and figured it was a good time to potentially jump on the winter jacket bandwagon. Straight up, I HATE the winter coat part of winter. I feel totally enormous in winter, with all the bulk of the jacket and scarf and everything. Add a belly to that, and it just doesn’t sound like a good time. However, I actually found a coat I really, really liked that doesn’t scream “maternity” at me. So I picked that up, plus three of their beautiful and super comfy long sleeved shirts for about $130. The coat at full price was supposed to be $140 and the shirts are each $28 so I’m thinking I got a pretty wonderful deal. Yay for $100 OFF! I doddled my way through the mall after that, did some research on upgrading our phones (won’t be doing that for a while :/ ) and eventually landed at Starbucks, where I purchased frapps for Brady and I, and seated myself outside in the sun while I waited for them to arrive. I relaxed in the sunshine while a nearby man told me his tale of woes, and how the love of his life cheated on him and left him childless, and how his dreams were crushed. I guess we all need someone to talk to sometimes.

After the van of fam arrived, we drove to my parents to share the wonderful baby news with them and ended up staying for supper and the evening. We ate good food and Dekker completely destroyed the living room with toys. But after not napping all day, both kids were trashed and it was quickly time to go home. They both slept the entire drive home, and were more than ready to be tucked in and continue right on with the snoozing. It was an enormous day for all of us, but truly wonderful!! So much happened, and now there is so much more to think about!!! I love being able to share the news of our baby BOY with you guys, and to be able to say “he” and “him” now instead of “it” or just “baby.”

Now to name the little sucker… Why are boys names so hard?!?!