134 days to go or 19 weeks...

Our appointment was moved to FRIDAY instead of this morning, how awesome was that. It was fun because we were able to surprise our family with the news we are having a BOY!!

His name is Cole Allen Palermo!!

We would love for each of you to call him by name and pray for him by name. We have 19 weeks to full-term and my doctor said she does not let it go past 41 or 42 weeks but hopefully he will be on-time or a few days early. We are anxious to meet him face to face but we also want him to be fully healthy and developed before making his debut.

The doctor said for the most part everything looked great. He was moving around so much that is was hard for her to hear any more then 3 heartbeats at a time but she was okay with that. He is very active in there, but I probably will not be feeling him for a few more weeks still. Please pray for his health. The doctor did mention she something in his heart, I think, that she referred to as Trisomy 21, which is Downs Symdrome. She did not say Cole has Downs, but that there is a 1 in 5000 chances that he does. She said she sees it all the time in normal babies and babies with downs. She asked us if we were freaked out by that and if so then she could do an Aminosynthesis test to know right now, but there is a 1 in 200 chance of miscarriage with that test just to know now. Either way it would not change our minds from having Cole, so it was not worth the risk to me or Brent to have that test done to just know right now. Please pray for good health for Cole and pray for us as we prepare for his arrival this summer.

Here are a few pictures from our visit that we wanted to share with everyone. It was so amazing to see him moving around so much and that we could see his little features already. Our first picture of him was a tiny little black dot.

(Cole's profile at 20 weeks and 3 days.)

(His hand waving at us.)

(He likes sucking his thumb already. Super cute!!)

(His arms and legs moving fast.)