It's a BOY!!!

After initially planning to wait til birth to find out the baby's sex, I quickly realized I wasn't going to be up to that challenge.  So, Alec and I decided that we'd wait until Christmas to find out whether we were having a baby boy or girl.  I realized this would be one of my favorite gifts and it would be free!  We had heard of some creative ways to reveal the sex and became very excited about one.  At the 20 week anatomy ultra sound where they check to see that all of the organs and limbs are developing correctly and of course can determine the sex, we had the ultrasound tech seal two envelopes with our baby's sex enclosed.  The ultrasound was amazing, they were able to see the details of the babies heart and even lips among other things. Everything looks great so far for baby Gill.  We then dropped one of the envelopes off at a bakery and ordered a green cake.  We asked the baker to use blue or pink food coloring for the inside of the cake batter so that we would know the sex after cutting into the cake.  We were entrusting them to read the envelope and were only slightly scared that they would get confused and use the blue/pink icing on the outside of the cake, spoiling the surprise.  Since Alec and I were staying in Florida this Christmas and hosting both of the families, we wanted to wait to cut the cake in front of everyone.  While the Greensboro snow slowed down my family, we were finally able to cut into the cake after midnight on the 26th.  Eager to find out,we both held onto the knife and made two slices to pull out a piece of cake filled with baby blue icing between the layers!  It was amazing!  While Alec had stayed quiet about his wants, I had made it quite clear that I was rooting for a boy so we were both EXTREMELY happy!  After passing cake slices around to everyone, we opened the second envelope from the ultrasound tech that included a picture indicating the male status:)  What  a Great Night!!