**The Father and Son Bond Begins**

**Lost Post**
((Orignianlly should have came out right after I wrote the Pink Blue or maybe Two post))

Ryan and I decieded to go to a 3D Ultrasound place to find out the gender bc we were in the middle of finding a doctor and were a little unsure when we would be able to find one and then schedule the actaul u/s..plus niether one of us could wait knowing we have could just simply go right down the street and find out.


We were told, or should I say I was told to drink orange juice 30 mins before coming to help wake up the baby and get him moving around in there. Ryan took this very literally and we got into a tiff about when I could drink my mcdonalds orange juice haha. We arrived at the place and the set up was very nice they had to large(maybe 42') flat screens on the walls to see the ultrasound on. One was on my left and the other directly in front on me. It is always a blessing and a little bit of a suprise when we get to see our little baby on the screen. Ryan I could tell at this point started to get very anxious! He was walking back and forth between the two screens looking at everything and trying so hard to tell what the baby was going to be. And since we are talking about a Nichols here the little one of course took his sweet time to show what was between the legs...and as everyone knows all the sudden we saw it and learned that we were going to be proud parents of a baby BOY! What happend next though is what made my eyes tear up. Ryans face was priceles and I wish I had all this on video. He looked amazed and happy and just in what I guess was disbelief. He actaully walked out of the room and I continued to talk to the u/s tech and looked at our little baby boy. When he did come back in, I asked him where he went and he told me that he went to pray and thank God for the blessing of a son and to call his dad and tell him that it was indeed a BOY!

I cant wait for our son to be here and to watch my two boys interact. I know Ryan is going to be an amazing father!


**EDIT** Ryan got to feel Nathan's first kick!! I have felt some flutters and such but no strong kicks yet. The other morning we were laying in bed before getting up for work and Ryan had his hand on my tummy hoping to feel our son. Somewhere between Ryan talking and the morning news I feel back to sleep. Well I soon heard Ryan repeating over and over again did you feel that?! I was half a sleep and was a little confused then I realized Ryan had felt a kick and I slept through it...well looks like the bond between the boys in the house is growing stronger :)

Pink or Blue or Maybe Two??

When you are pregnant the first question is when are you due and then comes the gender question...Boy or Girl? Ryan and I had always said we wanted boys first, we loved the idea of older brother being there for the little sister. Of course we just want a healthy and happy baby, the gender question still gets tossed around a bunch. Ryan wants a boy and has it in his that it will be a boy. I keep going back and forth of what I think it will be...a girl would be great since the cousins closest in age are girls but all the kids around us are boys...I have a strong feeling though that it will be a boy. During all this though my hcg levels had been charted and were higher than expected and for a bit we thought it might be because we were going to have twins...but at our ultrasound at 8 weeks we got to see the flicker of one little heart. So as it goes we decided to do some fun gender predicition test.

The first one we did was the Chinese Gender Prediction....BOY!

The second one we did was the baking soda test...BOY!

We didn't take a pic of this test but the idea of it was you mix pee and baking soda. If it foams its a boy if it doesn't its a girl...mine looked like the first beer out of a keg haha

The Third one we did was the Inteligender Test from walgreens...BOY!

 

So the question is now are we having a boy or girl??????

IT'S A BOY!!!!!!!