Snow is truly falling today all over the Midwest. I suppose being mid December it is ok for it to be ‘winter’ already. We enjoyed many more weekends then normal outside playing or biking. Since it is only light out for about five hours a day it might as well be cold and snowy too just to complete the package. However, if snow continues to fall too much I might be making a run for it early (and work from home) because I’m at the factory today and there is a huge hill between me and home I don’t want to be going backwards on.
Anyway, today was a nice day for baby planning. I successfully scheduled my gender finding out sonogram for my birthday. I think that is one of the better things possible for one’s 30th birthday. It took a bit of convincing to get past the guard dog nurse to the Dr but once I got to the Dr I knew he would say yes. I’ll be 18w and that should be plenty far to see if we are having a girl or a boy. I’m thinking boy just because the symptoms are really different then last time and similar to my sister’s three boy yielding pregnancies. I’m really fine with either gender, I would love another girl, they are so close in season I have all the cute dresses and everything and it will be fun to have two girls. A boy would be fun too, a whole different sort of baby, maybe one that will be a bit more mellow and possibly sleep all night before they are one. Who knows, the only thing for sure is it will be different then the first one.
I don’t know if I’ve written about this before so if you recognize it just skip ahead. I know a lot of people that don’t want to know the babies gender. I am not one of those people. I always joke that I like to plan or paint or whatever but really it is a Schrodinger’s cat issue. Before the babies gender is known to me, in a lot of ways I have a vision of a girl and a vision of a boy, both equally real. When I know what the gender is I have to say goodbye to the other one and even though it really is not a ‘lost’ child it is a weird feeling to me and something I would rather get done with nice and early. After I know I can think more about the baby that will be rather then splitting between two possible paths. I don’t think I’m alone in this theory and I support those that want to have a surprise in the delivery room but just having the actual baby in my arms is surprise enough for me. Another surprise is just how much poo will this one produce….
So as of Dec 18th I will know one way or the other, only 2 weeks to wait!
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