Baby h Update

Today is a big day for us. This morning, we get to find out if we're having a boy or a girl. The first sonogram suggested that it might be a boy. Understand, though, that this sono happened at 14 weeks - too soon to be conclusive about the gender. Today's sono will tell us for sure.

Assuming the kid cooperates and shows us its bits. Our kids aren't always so helpful.

A lot of people ask if we're trying for a boy, or if we are disappointed by having had so many girls. I am just thankful for a brood of healthy, happy kids. If we have another girl, things will be relatively easy. We're good at girls - the problems they might have, the way they tend to behave, and so on. Boys are uncharted territory, Oh, sure, we call SWWNO our little boy because she's so busy and violent and tough, but she's still a little girl inside.

The other downside to having a boy is that we have no boy stuff at all. If little h turns out to be of the male persuasion, he'll spend the first three years of his life wearing pink diapers with ruffle butts and purple dresses with lacy tutus. Though this may become his preference as he gets older, I'm not interested in dressing him like a little fairy princess ballerina cowgirl until kindergarten.

The upside to having a boy is that I get to teach him all the things that will get him into trouble, all under the auspices of raising him right. For example, he needs to know how to spit, how to fight, how to wrassle, and how to annoy his big sisters. This is what parents of boys call "fun". Also, boy stuff is apparently cheaper than girl stuff.

Whatever the baby is, all I care about is healthy. Ten fingers, ten toes, good neck size, strong heart. We'll worry about the rest of it as it comes.

That's all I have time for today. No clue what I'll write about tomorrow.

(UPDATE: we just got back from the doctor, and Henry is a perfect little in-utero baby boy!)

Cheers,

-- Zach