Carrying on the O'Neill Name

We are so thrilled that we will be welcoming a baby BOY to our family! Since about 12 weeks I started having very strong thoughts that this baby was going to be a boy. I had little signs along the way but the higher heart rate kept throwing me off. (There goes that wives tale!) Finding out halfway through the pregnancy was such new territory for us, it seemed so strange that we were going to know who was kicking us in there! We wanted to do something special to find out the gender, so with a little brainstorming with our good friend Jennifer Saville, take a look at the photos below...

We got a pair of pink baby shoes and a pair of blue baby shoes and identical boxes. In the morning, Marguerite selected which bow went on which box and wrote it on a card. At our appointment they told us which color bow to open. So, we waited all day until Tim got home to find out the big news! Traffic was horrible, so of course it took him forever to get home!

The anticipation of opening the box was killer! We were super excited! We had the sono tech circle the gender just to have back-up confirmation!


Time to Skype with the families! I held up both pairs of shoes and dropped the pink one's to reveal it was a boy!
Whitney holding her baby brother's shoes!
Lots of cheers!!
Excited Big Sister!