We have been absolutely itching with anticipation to get to our 20 week ultrasound!  Generic baby is not nearly as much fun as a son or daughter. :o)  The big day finally arrived yesterday and wow, what an experience!  I’m starting to show now so obviously there’s someone in there but it was just so amazing to see our baby moving around, yawning, and clenching tiny fingers.  There’s actually a real, live baby in there!  I guess you’re probably wondering whether Baby McLellan is a girl or a boy.  We have the official word and there’s no mistaking….   

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it’s a BOY!!! :o)  I guess we should have known there was a little Sean in there.  Ever since the pregnancy hormones kicked in, I’ve picked up all of his food oddities.  From a lack of love for chocolate (I mean, come on!), to a constant love of McDonald’s cheeseburgers and pizza (lovely for the figure), and the resignation that I’d rather die than run into any kind of gristle in meat – I hardly know myself!  Anyway, we’re SO EXCITED!!  He’s healthy and we’re having a SON!

We drew a name from all of the boy votes and my dear friend Allison O’Dell is the big winner of an iTunes gift card!  Thanks so much for playing along everyone!  We had such a great time with the baby poll and hearing from you all!  Thanks to your 137 comments and 200+ votes, $200 has been donated to St. Jude Children’s Hospital on behalf of Baby Boy. :o)

Have a wonderful weekend!!

– Mel 

So you may be thinking that it’s totally cheesy to call someone Sean’s age a “Birthday Boy” but what you need is a little McLellan dynamics lesson.  Sean doesn’t do the typical pet-names like Babe and Honey and Sweetie.  His term of endearment for me is “girl” so naturally, I’ve taken to calling him “boy” and today that would make him “Birthday Boy” – see? :o)  Everyone please wish him a great big Happy Birthday! 

Happy Birthday Boy!  I laaaaav you! ;o)

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Everybody who knows us is more than aware of how insanely busy we’ve been for the past two years. Our business was fairly successful from the start, but a couple of years ago it absolutely exploded, for which we thank all of our absolutely fantastic clients. It’s been a lot of work staying on top of things, but what nobody knew is that in addition, we’ve also been working hard so we could get ahead of the game and slow things down enough so that we could start our family!

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It’s true — the McLellan household will soon be a party of three! We could not be more thrilled!

It seems like everybody has a strong feeling about babies and their gender, but we have absolutely no idea either way! So we decided to have some fun with this–Let’s see just how psychic our blog readers are. I’ve made a poll that I’m posting below… cast your vote so we can easily keep a running total. As soon as you vote on the poll, leave a comment in the comment box with your prediction. Be sure to leave your email address along with your comment. We will be doing a drawing for a $10 iTunes gift card from everyone who guesses correctly. On top of that, we are also going to donate $1 to St. Jude Children’s Hospital for every comment that is left on this post before the end of the month.




Thank you so much for participating–we’re so happy to be able to share our excitement with all of you in blogland, and St. Jude is an awesome organization to support as well!- Sean and Mel