The News Is In: It's a GIRL!

Well Sharla, our oldest daughter who is just about 6 months pregnant has been waiting to find out the sex of her baby. And on Thursday the 22nd she finally found out. It is a girl! Exactly what she was hoping for as her first child and it has all its body parts. She decided to tell everyone in the family with a mass text message so no one could complain they weren't the first to know. Hmm....technology! The message went like this:

It's a girl. Has all it's parts. And is hairy just like Kevin. No, just kidding!

So now Dwight is telling everyone that she's having a hairy girl. I felt justified because I had made the daring prediction with my trusty pendulum that it was a girl about two months ago. I guess I had a 50% chance of being right huh? Or wrong.

She had said that when she found out for sure she was going to compile a list of names and then decide. But when I asked her this evening if she had decided she said she would wait until the baby was born and she actually saw her. Which is a good idea. We had planned on naming our second daughter Angela. When she was born and I saw her I knew immediately her name should be Katie. I shocked my husband when I said as they were rolling me out of delivery, 'We need to name her Katie. She just looks like one!' I think he thought I was drugged and delirious.

Well, whatever a 'Katie' looks like....??? Still I think it's a good idea. I've heard it said that the soul of a newborn whispers their name to you. I would never have believed that but something changed my mind the day that kid was born.

Now Sharla can go out and buy things specifically for a girl. In my day clothes were just kind of asexual because no one knew until birth what they were getting. Wow how times have changed. In a way not knowing gave you something to look forward to and it also gave you a chance to work through your feelings for each sex. I'm happy though, as I too was hoping for a girl. Katie has a little boy so Sharla's girl will balance it out. Her baby is due on Independence Day. A little fire cracker waiting to explode.