Your Vote Counts (not really)

We all know that my baby has a ginormous head, but we don't know what "it" is yet. We want you to vote on whether you think we are having a boy or a girl in the poll on the top right. Let us know in the comments why you thought we are having a boy or girl. We should find out in a few weeks what we are having and we'll let you all know.

Since I know that we are having a boy, we already have a name for him. I've had this name in mind for almost 7 years now, so I'll be happy when I'll finally be able to name my little boy. His name will be Tate Eric Elggren. We have a few names in mind for a girl, but haven't decided on anything definite. If we have a girl first, that's ok. This will be the name of our little boy regardless.

And just to give you a bit of extra information to help out in the voting process, I have had three dreams about Tate. After all, I'm the one giving the deciding chromie so I should know, right?

Happy Birthday Dude!

Today is my mom's birthday. She is 51. I'll have to confirm that and then ask if it is ok if I announce on my blog how old she is. We certainly are grateful for everything she has done. She's been an awesome mom. We've done a good job at driving her crazy and giving her gray hair. You can't see it in the picture, but I'm sure she has had her hair stylist remove it. I know my little boy (or girl) will love you as a grandma. We hope you enjoy your Wii. We hope to enjoy that with you soon. Happy Birthday mom! We love you!

My kid has a head!

Ashley had her second doctor's appointment with her new doctor yesterday. He was kind of crazy. We like that. We were a little nervous going in because of what the doctor lady said to us in Connecticut. When we went to the doctor for the first time in CT, they did some highly technical mathematic calculations to find out how far along Ashley was. After they told us Ash was six weeks along, they took us in to get an ultrasound. It was pretty cool to hear the heart beat that early. According to the ultrasound tech, she said Ash was about five weeks and two days and that the heartbeat was 90 beats per second which was on the low side of normal. They said they usually don't do an ultrasound until you're six weeks along. I figured that it was only low because she was only 5 weeks and a couple of days along. The next day, Ashley gets three phone calls throughout the day from the doctor's office telling her that she needs to get another ultrasound on May 20th to check the viability of the baby. They were aware that we would be moving, but we needed to get into the doctor as soon as we could. After Ashley looked up the word "viability" to find out what it meant, she started to freak out. I had to reassure her that everything would be ok. And it was.

After we got a second opinion from our Utah doc, we found out that the heart was beating at 170 beats per minute. He said it was more than perfect. I don't think we'll go back to that doctor in Connecticut. We also had another ultrasound done. This was my kind of ultrasound mostly because the picture was shown on a 42-inch plasma TV. This time my baby went from just a heart on a stick to a semi-baby looking thing with a giant head. If you look closely at the white dot on the picture, you can clearly see that we are having a boy. Ashley keeps trying to tell me that we won't find out for another 8 weeks. 8 more weeks and the truth will be confirmed. I'll have to create a poll and have everyone guess whether we are having a boy or a girl. I promise I'll be honest and only vote once. I've been guilty of voting more than once on a poll. I think it was 17 times for brunette on Ashley's blond or brunette poll.....

Mommy is going to be hurting if that head gets any bigger