First Pictures of Baby!

As you know, baby blue did not reveal its gender to us, but he or she did give us some good first pictures. I know what it's like to see someone elses ultrasound pictures. You nod your head and smile as the parents-to-be gush over the often unclear and alien appearances captured on the film before you. And while you are wondering if the picture you are looking at is maybe the arm or the leg, or how much this feels like an intense game of pictionary, they ask you, "Isn't he so cute?!" Interesting, yes. But cute? Not until now. It all changes when the baby before you is your baby. You cannot help but fill in the gaps of what he or she will look like and wonder what its personality will be. You cannot be anything but amazed at the fact that God entrusted you with one of His children, and it's moving and growing inside of you. Seeing the baby move on the ultrasound, waving its hand and moving its arm, made everything I have been feeling so real that the gender seemed irrelevant to the fact that, WOW, there is a living being inside of me!

So feel free to play pictionary in the comfort of your home as you enjoy our baby's first pictures! I'll save you the gushing (or maybe I'm too late) and let you decide for yourself just how cute our baby is...

Count them...five little toes!

Profile...Mike is already claiming the baby looks like him!

Little ribs, spine, baby's arm above, open mouth, little nose!

Reason 1 why we couldn't find out the gender...baby folded in half. Look at that long leg! The foot is literally above baby's head.

Reason 2 we couldn't find out baby's gender...squeezed in half! Again, look at that leg!