At 2pm pacific standard time we’ll be having the ultrasound where we find out the baby’s sex. I’m so exicted aobut it I didn’t need coffee this morning. I know some people like to wait for the surprise of whatever sex it is- please, hold your comments as you’ll be preaching to the choir.

I didn’t want to find out. I wanted it to be a big surprise. Heidi meanwhile hates waiting to find stuff out. We usually open our Christmas presents mid November. I came up with some pretty sound arguments like, “hey, the surprise will make the labor better- or thats what I hear.” I even tried the old, “what if the kid is a hermaphrodite? You really want to open that pandora’s box? You may want that looming over your head until delivery but I’m not for it.”

Finally I realized that she’s the one who’s going to have to squeeze a turkey out through a lemon so she wins. My job in bringing this baby into the world was a whole lot of fun. So if someone gets to decide when we find out- hey, it’s all her.

Remember. Today at 2pm. We’ll keep you posted.

Ed: Um… well, I can’t really tell.
Heidi: It looks like two lines, tho.
Ed: Come on- that one? That one’s really light. It’s more pink. What’s it say about pink?
Heidi: I think I threw out the directions.
Ed: What?
Heidi: Well, I dunno. When I used the first one?
Ed: When was that?
Heidi: The last time I- oooo. It’s pretty red now.
Ed: Gimme that. We don’t even have the directions. Two lines could mean you’re dying. I don’t want that on my head.
Ed: Let’s get another one. It could be a fluke.

(fifteen minutes later)

Heidi: OK, now how long do we wait?
Ed: Um… lessee…. hold in stream…in two minutes, see one blue.. CRAP. how the crap did they manage to make these instructions complicated? You pee, you wait, AAARRRHH.
Heidi: It says three minutes.
Ed: three it is. let’s take a nap.
Heidi: uh?
Ed: For three minutes. (three minutes pass)

Heidi: It looks lika plus.
Ed: Oh come on, it’s really vague. Lets do another.

(five minutes later)
Heidi: Ubuh uhbuh.
Ed: eeeh. ooob. ibbeh.
Heidi: Wow.
Ed: oot.
Heidi: so, uh. wow.
Ed: aich. igggg.
Heidi: baby.
Ed: Wow. Baby. wow.
Ed: Gimme a minute. I’ll be right back, I’m just doing a quick search for “false positives.”
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