It's Another Boy!!!

Yes, Baby Branch 2 is a boy!! We are so excited and can't wait to meet the little guy, and we are glad Jack will have a buddy to play with!

We had our ultrasound on April 12th, and everything looked great with him and me! He was measuring 3 days early, but they are still leaving my due date at September 11th.  He moved around a lot and looked so cute, even in black and white! :-)  Here are some pictures:

This is the "It's a Boy!" picture!  The very top is a leg, then not a leg, then another leg!  Ha!  That's what the ultrasound tech said when she told us he was a boy! :-)

His sweet foot!

Here he is looking at us!

After our doctor's appointment, we went to Mama Becky and Daddy Mer's house for supper and a small "gender reveal" party!  Kurt and I had bought two baby outfits the night before, one blue and one pink, then took both in the car with us to the doctor, then wrapped up the blue one for Jack to open in front of everyone before dinner.  He finally pulled out the blue outfit for everyone to see, and everyone was so excited, but also shocked!  Most everyone thought we were having a girl for sure since I had been so sick this pregnancy, but no, another healthy boy!!  We got to tell Jack he was getting a little brother!! So exciting!  Also, yes, my face is priceless in the 2nd picture!  Thanks Daddy Mer for capturing that!

Jack celebrated immediately with tacos!

Sisters! So glad Amy and her family could be there that night, too!

Jack is finally understanding how awesome it will be to have a little brother to play with!  Also, I'm sure you can tell in the pictures, but Jack had a bit of an accident earlier that day before the doctor's appointment.  He was running towards a baseball bat, tripped in his shoes on the carpet, and hit the corner of the wall head on, giving him a mini-gash and goose egg on his forehead, a bad scrape on his nose, and a busted upper lip!  Poor guy just wanted to play baseball!  Needless to say, it was very hard for his mommy and daddy to leave him after this, but thank goodness Mama Becky could take care of him and make him feel better!

We have pretty much decided to name the new baby Charles Coleman Branch and call him Charlie!  Coleman is a family name on both sides, plus Charles Coleman was Daddy Mer's granddad's name!  We didn't even know that until we came up with the name a few weeks ago!  It's so fun to call Charlie by name, and Jack can barely contain himself that he will be able to play baseball with Charlie someday!  Sweet brothers!