Inconclusiveish

The tech said, "If you want to know my guess... Right now I'm kinda thinking... Well, you know, as far as I can tell right now... I'm guessing girl."

So. There you go. Girl. Sort of.

I refrained from running to the boutique baby store down the street and buying up their pink inventory. Apparently the umbilical cord also looks like girl parts in an ultrasound? And if the umbilical cord happens to be hiding the boy parts, well, you see what can happen. I have the Big Ultrasound in another couple of weeks so we'll hold off on the gender-specific clothing until then. At least.

There is one thing that makes me think the tech is right, and that would be Elizabeth thinking it's a girl. Did you know Elizabeth is the Pregnancy Oracle? Last night I told Phillip that I bet we are having a girl, just because Elizabeth said so.

I did not think we would have a girl. Out of the eight children in Jack's generation (in our two families) only one is a girl. And in Phillip's family there aren't any whatsoever. Plus all the grandparents are silently (and not so silently) rooting for a girl and the way I see it, as soon as you get your hopes set on something you can automatically assume you're not going to get it. Phillip and I are hoping the tech is right, but I can honestly say we'd be just as happy with a second boy. It's hard to picture a girl, but it's easy to imagine another boy. Another Jack! Last night we were talking about what our girl would look like. The best we came up with is a Jack with longer eyelashes.

I'm pretty tired this morning. Probably because I spent several hours at the hospital last night with a friend waiting for her husband to come out of surgery. The author of the hoverblog (for those of you interested in local trivia) broke his leg playing soccer and will forevermore have to carry his x-rays to get him through airport security. Something about metal rods? Ouch. So thankful am I for my sedentary computer geek husband! We caught up on pretty much everything and I reminded her how we'd been talking about needing to get out at night more often. I suppose this was one way to do it.

While I'm being all random, I wanted to apologize for being an absolutely rotten comment-responder. I used to write back all the time, especially if you are NEW because you're NEW and you came HERE and how NICE OF YOU! But I have totally slacked lately and a comment-ignorer is not so cool. I'd blame it on my new Facebook obsession, but after you add all the friends in I'm not sure what you're supposed to do with it. Sigh. Yet more proof that I am not as cool as I say I am.

To complete the random, I have yet ANOTHER angsty SAHM post up, this time at Parenting. So. If you aren't sick of those yet, knock yourself out.

And Elizabeth, please consult your crystal ball and let me know whether I should bust out that pink preemie outfit my mother sent me (along with a blue outfit) when I told her I was pregnant the first time.

Comments

[Elizabeth]

OMG! I am
1. So very excited for you, but also remain cautious.
2. kind of freaking myself out. But yeah, I'm still getting girl.
I'll let you know if the crystal ball changes between now and the big Ultrasound.
And also, you are having a baby and you have a ten? month old. Please DO NOT worry about responding to my comments!

[Lisa]

I'm sure you are looking forward to the more exact U/S in a few weeks, but it's fun to think of little pink things and girly clothes and such. Boys are so cute, but the baby clothes industry certainly doesn't work as hard at making fun little boy clothes as they do the fun little girl clothes.

[ashley]

Okay, Maggie, time for my 23 year old (aka: Facebook addict) advice.

Facebook...so many possibilities
Here is what you do:

1. Develop your information section more.
2. Join a group or two or 30.
3. Stalk people. Err, I mean, search for and add friends from school. Then see what they're up to without actually talking to them.
4. Make a picture album.
5. Comment. Comment. Comment. On people's walls, on their pictures, etc.
6. Enjoy the immense waste of time.

Also, I'm not exactly sure knowing how to spend/waste loads of time on Facebook equates to coolness, so have hope! You may still be cool!

[Jess]

I hope that if I get to the point of having one baby and being pregnant with a second, I can honestly feel that I would be happy with a boy or a girl like you. Also, I totally would have bought out a whole store's worth of girl clothes just from that. I admire your restraint.

[Jen]

Hooray for a possible girl! (Although I hear that they guess wrong on those things all the time. Possibily why I am thinking of not finding out myself at all.)

[Tessie]

Girl! GIRL! Girls are AWESOME! Oh, this is so exciting.