Roswell<\/em>‘s leading lady Shiri Appleby<\/strong> is expecting a little bundle of joy come spring – but both she and her new fiance are opting to stay in the dark about their baby’s gender.<\/p>\n

“He really wanted to do it and it sounded like fun,” the actress told Us Weekly of fiance Jon Shook<\/strong>‘s suggestion to keep the gender a surprise. “It’s really made the whole pregnancy a heightened excitement because you just don’t know what it’s going to be!”<\/p>\n

Appleby, 34, and Shook, a chef and owner of L.A.’s Animal, are instead keeping busy decorating their baby’s room (with monochromatic colors and a chandelier) and making sure that their little one – whom they call “Baby Shook” – is healthy.<\/p>\n

“Thank God, knock on wood, I’ve had a really easy pregnancy,” Appleby told Us. “I’ve been working out a lot just because it feels good. And I’ve loved it, you get to eat as many breads and pastas as you want and don’t gain weight. It’s been great!”<\/p>\n

Shook, 31, has been reveling in the early stages of parenthood too.<\/p>\n

“Right now he’s really excited,” Appleby said of Shook. “He felt the baby kick the other day for the first time and we went to that really fun, five-month check-up where you see the baby in 3D and we were just laughing our heads off the whole time. It’s just so much fun.”<\/p>\n

The pair got engaged just a few months before, during a July trip to Ventotene, Italy. Shook had to propose twice because Appleby was so excited and overwhelmed.<\/p>\n

“I was like, ‘I want to slow this moment down,'” she told Us at the time.<\/p>\n

Going through their pregnancy has, in fact, made their bond stronger, Appleby said.<\/p>\n

“When you see this guy going to all the doctor’s appointments with you and you tell him you’re feeling a certain way and two minutes later he’s looked it up on the Internet to tell you that it’s normal, you realize that you’re really starting a family with somebody,” she said, “and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just – there’s no way to look at that person and not be more in love.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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