Well, last Friday was the big day. Ultrasound day. The day when, if all goes well, you get to find out if your new little one will be wrapped in a pink or blue blanket at the hospital.    

The day before our appointment, Tyler, my husband, had mentioned he wanted a boy. That was the first time it had crossed my mind that the baby might not be a girl. We already have a two-year-old girl, so as far as I was concerned all babies are girls and I was expecting a girl. So I shrugged off his comment, thinking to myself, “Poor soul. He thinks he is getting a boy.”

Back to the big day. The technician ushered us into a room, directed me to the big grey table (they disguise it as a bed by putting a pillow on it), and proceeded to look for the little creature growing inside of me. The technician didn’t have to say anything, though she did anyway, because we could plainly see that this little baby was no girl.

The technician then goes about her business and begins checking all the other vital baby parts. All the while, my mind was racing. “A boy,” I thought to myself. “What will I do with a boy!?”

After a few minutes Tyler was a little concerned because I hadn’t said too much. He asked me if I was “ok” with a boy.

“Of course I am,” I replied. Honestly, what else was I supposed to say? The problem was, I wasn’t really OK yet. I was thinking of all our little baby church dresses in our daughter’s closet that wouldn’t be worn by a little boy.

The story has a happy ending. Now that the idea has settled in my brain, I am thrilled to go in a completely new direction and have a little “man-child.” (That is what my husband calls our new baby.) I have even made a list of pros to prove that I am excited about having a boy.

1.   There will now be someone in the house who will actually want to play with Tyler and all his old Lego sets.

2.   NO PINK!!!! (I hate pink.)

3.   We have so many cool names to pick from that are unusable for a girl. For example: Jet, Dax, Jax, or Levi.

4.   No hard-to-do hairstyles that don’t stay in anyway. (Hairstyling is not my strong point.)

5.   Tyler will have to take a little more responsibility with this child. I can’t teach a little boy to be a little man because I don’t have any experience in that area.