It's a boy!!!

We had our appointment this morning and everything looks great!  The baby is a boy, he had the hiccups during our ultrasound, and my due date is still Christmas day.  He's thirteen ounces, which puts him in the ninety-second percentile for weight (and makes him the size of a cantaloupe.)  The tech and the doctor kept saying 'he's going to be a big baby!'  Afterward, we had lunch with the grandparents, where I had my first glass of wine in months and we got our first blue gift: a blanket from my parents.  It's been a great day already.

And now we know that we're having a boy!!!
--sonogram pictures to come