It's a....

BOY!

We had our anatomy scan today and found out early in the scan that our little (heirloom) tomato (approximate size at 19 weeks) is a boy.  He was very very active and the ultrasound tech had to chase him all over to get all the pictures she needed.  I'm betting I will soon be getting sore ribs and internal organs from this activity, but right now it still feels like little flicks of the finger or (what I think) a kernel of popcorn would feel like if it popped in my belly.  We will get the full report about development in September.  The fun parts are the cute pictures we got out of it and learning the sex.  Thankfully he mostly cooperated!

No names decided yet!  We still have a ways to go on this, but we have plenty of time.  I'm a few days shy of "half way" based on due date.  We'll be thinking hard about it.

Without further ado, here is our little boy showing off for the ultrasound wand!

Yum Yum hand!  It is pretty obvious where the head, arms, and legs are.  The darker spot towards the top of the torso is the heart.  

Still waving his hands in his face.  

The whitish area on the back of the torso is the spinal column.

Long legs and feet...you can even see the toes a bit

This is our alien baby.  Alien head to the right, freakish single foot with four toes on the left.  Bwahahaha. 

Check out his other side.  Which is more photogenic?  

A bit blurred, but you can see some bones (the bright white areas)

And this is the shot that showed us that he is a boy.  Butt to the right, legs to the left, and the middle part shows his parts.  It was more clear a few times on the screen, but the tech didn't capture it in time.  Brian and I both noticed it before she got this picture and told us.  This was no more than 5 minutes into the scan, so we were lucky that baby cooperated!

Our tech was super nice and very cool.  She even spent a few minutes after the official picture getting for the anatomy scan requirements to show us some good profiles that got us some of these pictures.  I still find ultrasounds totally cool.  And it was pretty amazing how the tech could find the kidneys and heart and just zone in on them in seconds.  Sometimes it was just a different shade and I never would have thought it was anything special.  The heartbeat was nice and strong and about 156bpm.  He is very active.