SO NOW THAT THE SECRET’S OUT, I am sure you’re all wondering the gender of our baby as much as we were! I personally would have waited the entire pregnancy to find out, because this is my last baby(I’m 80% sure) and I loved the idea of the suspense, but Matt thought that was a crazy crazy idea, so I decided to meet halfway and host a gender reveal party! I didn’t have one with Hudson, we simply found out the gender at the doctor pretty uneventfully, so it was really fun to plan this and dream about popping that balloon and finding out in such an exciting way.
I took the Panorama test at 12 weeks to find out the gender early on, so we found out at 14 weeks. Basically the doctor gave me a call, and in that call I handed the phone over to my assistant, Sea, so she could hear the part about the gender. This all happened on a Thursday, and the party was on a Saturday. It was so surreal knowing that she knew the gender but we didn’t! Matt kept saying “ITS SO CRAZY SEA KNOWS THE GENDER OF OUR BABY!!” lol! But she has such a great game face, and I trusted her to fill the balloon and help me prep for the party! We wanted to keep it extremely small, and in this pregnancy I really enjoyed telling hardly anybody I was pregnant until 14 weeks and staying out of the center of attention. The only people who came were our immediate family (my parents and my two brothers) and my sister-in-law. My in-laws were in China on a trip, so they were sad to miss it. We also invited Rachel Martino, Jaglever Rachel and Noelle because no party is a party without these girls (Noelle was sadly away) and my closest local friends, Erin and Kyle. There were SO many people I wanted to invite, but I truthfully couldn’t fathom the idea of more than 15 people in my house, so I opted to keep it really intimate which was great.
I went all-out with the decor, mostly because I love decorating so much and I knew this would be the only gender reveal I’d ever throw. Sea and I baked cupcakes, and put little mustache and bow toppers on them. I also ordered this balloon arch, and it took us only about an hour to put it all together – it looks AMAZING. So much better than I even thought it would! I would recommend ordering a balloon pump if you’re thinking of adding one.
The be 100% honest, every part of me thought this baby was a girl. Everyone around me also thought it was a girl! My pregnancies have been SO different, and I’m not sure if I just wanted it to be a girl so I could experience having one of each sex, or if I did really think it was a girl. Either way, we were all SO shocked when the balloon popped. Hudson kept saying it was a girl from day 1, and he even was wearing a “Team Girl” pin for most of the gender reveal party! A lot of you noticed that in my first instagram photo yesterday, his pin was pink! Five minutes before the reveal, he ripped the pin off and said “I want Team Boy!!” – my mom said at that moment she had a gut feeling that it was a boy. Matt kept neutral about a preference, but as you can see from his face, he clearly had one! He was so over the moon to get a second boy!
When we popped the balloon, it took me a few seconds to realize the confetti was blue! My dad said he felt the same way. I was just SO CONVINCED that it was a girl, that my brain did not register for a second. I was really overwhelmed with emotion, because I was so shocked, and also because I had to close the doors on the idea of ever having a daughter. I grew up with two brothers, and while I always felt I would have boys too, I did always want a sister, or a daughter in my life. I do not think (as of right now, at least) that we’ll ever have another baby, so it was emotional for me to close the doors on this idea of what I thought I’d have in my life. But all things aside, a healthy baby is the most important thing, and boys are the SWEETEST. I’ve loved being a boy mom, and feel so connected and close to Hudson, and cannot wait to experience that again with baby boy #2! I am so relieved that everyone knows now, and that I can openly talk about him!!!! Thanks for sharing in this special time with me!!
