Baby Pictures!

I am happy to present the first pictures ever taken of Number Two (NT). Although we now know the sex of the baby, I am going to try to avoid pronouns by referring to NT by name for now and let the photos speak for themselves.

We did not know going in that we would get the 3-D treatment, but apparently it is standard procedure now - where we were anyway. Number One was born back in 2003 when this kind of thing was just starting to go mainstream. The ultrasound equipment was modern enough that not only did it take regular and 3-D sonograms, it also supported annotations and CD burning. You may notice some arrows and text in some of the images that the nurse added. When she was done taking the pictures, she selected a bunch of the interesting ones, clicked a couple of buttons, and the CD started burning. It was pretty cool.

I think I can be pretty objective, so I'll give my opinion on some of these. We start off with the classic profile view. You can see NT's mouth, nose, eyes, forehead - even a fist. There's a little hint of an ear. We can see the chest. Everything looks perfect. Nice looking head. Heads are important.

Here's our first 3-D look at NT. It looks like he is shielding his face from a very bright light, but I am told that it is very dark in his world right now. He doesn't look very happy, but it gives us a good look at his left arm and hand, including all 7 fingers. Wait, sorry, no, there are only 5 there (the left thumb makes an appearance in another image). Whew!

Here we get a pretty good look at his face. You can already tell that he's going to be cute. Little button nose, scrunched eyes, little mouth. This baby is perfect. Try to ignore that big Chunk-o-Mama on the left.

As if I haven't given it away already, here's the evidence. After the ultrasound we met with the doctor and he laughed heartily over this picture. "It's definitely a boy!" he chuckled.

On a side note, I had a lot of trouble understanding the perspective in this one. Lacey got it right away, but if you're like me, here's a hint: the thing to the left of the arrow is the top of his knee. The large round thing... no the other large round thing... the one on the far right. That is his belly. He's basically sitting on his bottom, and of course, he's going commando.

I hope you enjoyed these. We are very excited about raising another man. We're up to the challenge and if NT is anything like Rian, it's going to be a blast. I'm looking forward to meeting this guy face-to-face in February and taking a lot more pictures!