I think the title is pretty telling but our ultrasound yesterday revealed this little squirmy thing inside me to be another boy. Woot! I know a lot of women who cry when they find out such news but I’m thrilled. All those same clothes will be revisited! We have a name! (No, I don’t think I’ll tell you just yet. 🙂 ) And I know boys now. Yes, this child will be a different game altogether but I have experience in the care of infant boys.

It’s not that I wouldn’t have been OK with having a girl. There were a lot of reservations about it – probably in the same way boy mothers cry at their news – but I doubt I would have been all that upset. It would just mean adjustments and going into something completely different. And as we all know, that’s never so bad. Learning new things is good for you.

But like I told all the disappointed friends and family, I don’t have control over genetics. Ash’s bloodlines just create baby boys. I know that all the women in my family wanted a girl. At first, I felt like I was letting them down but I cannot control science and evolution and all that other stuff. So I am sorry, Alyson, that you won’t be able to share your Hello Kitty stuff. And I am sorry, Mom and Brenna, that you can’t knit all those cute things for a girl. BUT! Two boys equals twice the mischief and mayhem and isn’t that awesome?? I know my father is ecstatic about it all.

I realized, as the technician was going through all the various body parts: the heart to make sure it has four chambers and the umbilical cord’s three ventricles, the nice tapered spine and the head, the base of the skull to make sure it’s not too thick, which would indicated Down’s Syndrome… it was then I realized that whatever she showed us in terms of gender organs, I didn’t care. The baby was growing right on schedule, had all its appendages and organs, and it was stretching out and flopping around all cute-like. When she showed us the – obvious – boy bits – the relief came from the ease of entering him into our lives in terms of clothes, etc. (I’m frugal, what can I say?)

I promise I’ll post the grainy b&w pics to Flickr soon; Ash had them on the scanner last night but I think we were both too busy making phone calls to get stuff done. We’re happy and scared of the financial side of things but still over the moon about having two little boys. I’ll be outnumbered but I don’t mind at all. /biggoofygrin 😀