Our Baby Boy

So today was the day that we went in for the big ultrasound!! And everything was wonderful. I was excited that my mom got to come with us this time and see how amazing it is to see everything on the screen. He was looking so cute. He was moving around for part of the ultrasound but he must've fallen asleep because she couldn't get him to move over to see his aorta. The technician said it wasn't a huge deal but we could look for it again if the doctor wanted us to which maybe that will just give us another sneak peek at our sweet baby :)

So I guess Dr. Womack will look over everything to make sure it all looks good but the technician said from what she saw everything looked good!

My friend Mallory who works at the Women's Center had me all nervous that they could've been wrong at Hope and that it could be a little girl - this apparently happened to one of her good friends. But we went in and she confirmed within about 10 seconds that we did indeed have a boy and proceeded to print out a few pics for proof. Here are some pictures of our handsome little guy.

the little black spot in the middle is his heart :) so precious.

Now on to what you're really here for....

We have decided on our son's name. Really we decided before we were even pregnant although at that point we weren't quite as settled. As soon as we started trying I had a list of names that I was ready to propose. I would just keep a little note on my phone full of baby names that I heard and liked. Every once in a while I would pull out the names and delete a few that I had changed my mind about or that Brandon didn't like and sometimes he would add a name. We really didn't even toss around that many ideas. I did know that I wanted to use Sheppard in a boy's name and we even thought briefly about it being a first name but it just didn't quite fit.  We basically had gotten set on our boy and our girl name pretty quickly although the girl name we weren't quite sure on. Let's say I was sure - Brandon was not. But her name would've been Reagan Jane.  Maybe we will have a Reagan one day :)

So about a week before our ultrasound Brandon decided maybe we weren't set and then he thought we'd know after we knew if our baby was a boy or girl. And then the day we found out he was a boy, Brandon admitted that we knew the name all along. Then it just became a matter of convincing Brandon to share. At first he wanted to save the name until he was born but then that meant that all my friends couldn't buy cute "G" stuff for our little guy. Since all the ladies at school are having boys, I convinced Brandon that I needed to put our name out there and "claim" it so he finally gave in.  He really gave in quite easily and then I felt a little guilty. But we finally shared it with a few friends and that made it easier to announce. And since today confirmed that our boy is a boy. We shall tell you...

our son's name is.......

Grayson Sheppard Hall