It's weird how time flies

Remember when I was talking about impatience? I look back and can't believe how fast time has gone since my last post.

Hello sweet potato. Hello 17 weeks and 4 days!

Hello baby BOY Jackson Paul!

It has been a whirlwind of a week with Janet (my mother-in-law) in town. Every night we have driven up to L.A. to hang out at Kate and Randy's house to enjoy being together.

This may sound awful, but I had good reason to feel this way: I was more excited for the last day she was here than any other day. We were finding out the gender of our baby!

First, we went to a 4D Ultrasound gender facility. They had Aaron, Janet and I go into a large room with a projector screen for the viewing. We explained that Aaron and I could not know the gender, but only Janet would get to receive the happy news.

But, what was so amazing is Jackson actually looked like a BABY! He has all 10 fingers and 10 toes, was crossing his little tiny legs and had the most precious profile of any baby I've ever seen. I was immediately drawn to the love for our child. I was talking to him the entire time we saw him wiggling and moving around the screen without even thinking twice!

Of course, Aaron and I had no idea what to look for...parts wise...so we left without a clue. Janet knew, and continued to torture.

The rest of the day went by so quickly. With a second doctor's appointment and some work in between, dinner came soon enough!

Janet did such a stunning job with the cake. Needless to say I was DYING to cut it to see the color inside! She placed pink and blue all over Kate's dining room. It was just perfect. 

So...about 45 of the longest minutes of my life passed. We all decided that we needed to know before dinner was served.

HELLO BABY JACKSON!

I'll post more pictures once I get them from family that watched us cut the cake. I'll post them. I know I need baby bump pictures too! I'm growing daily and getting "congrats" from random people, so I assume it's looking more baby bump by the day.

And on another very sweet and wonderful and fantastic note, I feel flutters in my belly almost daily now. Since I was about on my 16th week, I've been feeling tickles on the inside of belly. It's now getting more and more frequent, and stronger all the time. I can't wait until he can kick and Aaron can join in on the fun.

We are so in love. He's perfect already and doesn't even have to try. 

22 weeks and 3 days left. I'm loving every minute of it!