"the baby"

On Dec. 26 we are finding out the baby's gender! There will be an official pronoun in use very soon. Here are my thoughts at this point....

BOY:

I believe with all of my pregnancy instincts, that he is a boy. We already have a name for him & I have been calling him that for quite awhile.  I clearly love a boy. LOVE A BOY. I have always wanted boys. At our 10 year high school reunion (when I was preggers with A) I read my time capsule that I had saved when I was 17. My #1* prediction for my adult life?  Mom to all boys. That is not just a coincidence.  (* #2 was that I would be an astronaut, but let's focus on 1 for now)

 Boy toys are way more fun. I like how easily Anderson is entertained with dirt, watching traffic and running around in circles. There is ZERO pressure to dress a boy. None. He could wear the same thing everyday for a week and nobody would notice or care. 

If a boy acts crazy, it is sort of expected and not a sign of seemingly bad parenting.  Boys are less drama down the road-they can't get pregnant, I don't have to pay for a wedding, they don't require as much (any?) beauty stuff and adult male clothes are shirts and pants. No accessories, no extras, just to the point. I am used to using the male pronoun. For a person who strives on efficiency, there is nothing better than having 2 of the same gender, right? I like saying, "boys" instead of, "kids". It seems much more personal. I. am. FRUGAL. Hello, using all of the same clothes/stuff/toys forever.

I married into a family of all boys (according to Toni who did the genealogy, the last Glover girl was in 1817, I think) ON PURPOSE!

 I love the idea of giving Anderson a brother. What greater gift is there, really?

Anderson is fun, perfect, hilarious, exhausting, THE BEST THING EVER and, yes, thank you, I will have another!!

GIRL

Girl is red because I was not crazy about the pink option. (Perhaps, that is some kind of subliminal message?)

It is not that I don't want a girl, I just really think it is a boy.  I think it is so much harder for me to even pretend to grasp what life with a girl would be like. A girl. A daughter. Seems crazy. Imaginary. Sort of unicornish. You know they exist, but you don't necessarily believe. 

I would love a girl because I want a grown up daughter. I am talking a late 20's daughter. I like the idea of going to Target and running errands with my grown up daughter like I do with my mom. I want a girl, so I can "have one of each" and be the mom who is able to personally compare the differences between the two. ( Part of me dislikes this, though. I am annoyed when people say, "We got lucky and got one of each." Luck is in the eye of the beholder, I say) I like the idea of Anderson having a younger sister to look out for and take care of throughout childhood. I like the idea of Anderson having a younger sister to take care of him throughout adulthood. I would like to see a Cars toothbrush and Princess toothbrush in the same sink. Girl clothes are cuter. (I am admitting that very begrudgingly, because that also means they would be expensive,I fear) I would love to have a girl to hang with her girl cousins. I would mostly love to give Toni a girl. I would take one for the team to provide that for her, I think. 

Brandon thinks it is a girl & said to me the other day, "It is not just going to rain on your parade when we find out this is a girl, it is going to rain cats & dogs."

One of the main things that stresses me out about having a girl is the "A" part. I cannot just have 1. A girl cannot live without a sister, right? We are pretty set on just 2 kids, so this is not really an option. 

Do not get me wrong, I fully realize that if this baby is a girl I will be estatic; my life will be perfect because I will be lucky enough to have a daughter. But, for now, I just like the idea of my boys and am pretty happy living in that world!

And, just because maybe you are thinking I don't really thin k it is a boy, here is the stuff I have already bought for him.  Sitting right next to the girl stuff....

I honestly don't care (here it comes...), I just want it to be healthy. But, seriously, dealing with The Eye has made me much more aware of things that can go wrong. I am so much more worried about this pregnancy than I was with Anderson & I think it is because I now what I have to lose.

 Leave your comment and let me know your guess!