The week before I had my 20 week ultrasound and had to go solo. At the last minute Ben surprised me and gave me the green flag to find out if we would be dealing with another Anderson or Audrey. I had the results in an envelope but later that night started to have second thoughts about whether I wanted to know or not. One week later and we were 100% committed to finding out. SO....instead of throwing a party and making it a big production, I always thought it would be cool to pop a balloon that contained the results (confetti in this case). Ben was on board and suggested doing one for his mom as well as the kids. So the day after Thanksgiving I started making calls to florists for the last minute task. I finally found a florist by our house that was actually open and explained what I was trying to do. I think they were just as excited as we were! This entire time we still had no idea whether we would be purging the blue or pink baby clothes. We picked up the balloons on the way to CLE and had Sharon pop her balloon after opening all her gifts. She was clueless that one of her birthday balloons actually contained the results. So glad we got to share our little surprise with most of his family present.
The next morning we had the kids pop a balloon. Being the awesome mom I am, I made a bad call and gave my 4 year old a KNIFE to pop the balloon. At the time I didn't think anything of it until she started chasing me around with the knife trying to pop the balloon and of course Anderson was right behind her. Watching the video over again made me feel even worse! Luckily nobody was stabbed or injured in the process. Audrey was beyond excited when she saw the results!!
I can honestly say I have no regrets finding out the gender. It actually has made planning and preparing this time around more fun then I ever would have imagined. Now to narrow down names to at least two. Oy..
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