7 months...boys everywhere...

Today {actually yesterday} marks the seven month mark since we met our sweet boy. Some days it feels to me as though I never met him at all. Other days it feels so close that I can almost feel his baby soft skin and see his little wiry, tiny, muscular legs in my lap. To a momma, that baby will never leave my heart.  Thanks to those of you that remembered. I sometimes forget that it is the 13th...so I appreciate a reminder. I think of Briar everyday, so the 'month' markers aren't that significant, because I'm always thinking of him!

It was so special, because today in class, one of my sweet boys named *Bob* (name changed!) told me that he had two siblings. One that lives in New York and one that lives in heaven. That is how I want my kids to explain their brother, Briar. :)

Another exciting thing today {yesterday..my computer was funky and wouuldn't post yesterday so things are written in the 'today' form..}...
We are about two days from being 17 weeks.
And we went to the doctor...

This is our sweet little bean at 12.5 weeks. Not yesterday.
These are the parts we saw then...

But of course everyone has their wives tales about finding out early. 
Oh, the girl parts look like that at first.
Oh, girls are often misdiagnosed as boys.
oh, if the heartrate is this...it can't be a boy..
and so on...
Well...if you had seen this boy part (in another ultrasound, you would have believed it too....)
So we chose to 'wait' to really believe it.
But (let's be honest), I believed it...

Yesterday, we went in for a routine appointment and had another ultrasound.  This was an elective ultrasound...I just wanted to see my guy moving, and double check to see that his boy parts were still there.  Well, they were there.
In fact, he couldn't keep his hands off them.
Typical man. :)


We got some cuter pictures, in which I kept exclaiming "His head is so white!" (which is the bone...which I'm so happy to see!!)....but I didn't have time to scan them before school today!



Crazy to know that little Eli Matthew, currently living in Ethiopia...
who doesn't know that we will be his family...and might even still live in his birth momma...
Already has another brother here in Georgia..
In my belly.

Pretty exciting!
Happy day for us...two boys coming to the Whitis house....