Curiosity

(First of all, I want to wish my wonderful husband a very happy 29th birthday!! I love you, hun!)

As we inch closer and closer to the arrival of our second child, we're both getting to that "we're really getting curious about the gender of the baby" stage. We've been through this before since we didn't find out what Audrey was until the doctor announced "it's a girl!" as she was laid on my chest for the first time. (simply, an amazing moment, by the way!) But this time my curiosity level is through the roof! With about 7 weeks to go, I find my thoughts wandering to what our home and lives would look like and how different they would be depending on the gender of #2. We like the look of both scenarios, but for some reason, I'm way more curious at this stage in the pregnancy to find out than I was the first time around!

Let me explain: When we were pregnant the first time around, it didn't seem to matter to either of us if we had a boy or a girl. Tyson, obviously, wanted a son, but we knew we didn't want only one child, so he knew it wasn't worth getting all worked up over the first child being a boy. I want a son at sometime, too, but just as much as I wanted a boy, I wanted a girl that much, too. Basically, we'd like to have at least one of each by the time we're done having kids. That being said, it would be nice to have a boy this time and have the pressure taken off to have one of each, but we are also thinking that we want more than 2 kids, so why should we care if this one is a boy or girl? #3 (or possibly #4) could be a boy. anyway...

All that to say...

Throughout the last two years we've had many friends have babies and one thing we noticed was that most of them had an ultrasound around 35-37 weeks. For whatever reason, we did not have an ultrasound that late with Audrey; our "big" ultrasound at 20 weeks was our last one. So...at my last appointment, my doctor mentioned doing an ultrasound in about a month, so we now have one last ultrasound scheduled before we meet our new little one. And I'd be lying if I didn't admit that a tiny, itty-bitty, really small part of me just wants to find out. And for those of you that really know me, that's a big deal. That's how curious I am!!! Tyson is now the one holding strong saying "we've already made it this far, we might as well wait a couple more weeks." I don't think I would actually give in when the day of the ultrasound came, but it's nice to know that Tyson will be there reminding me of how much I want that same moment with #2 that we had when we found out #1 was a girl. I'm not sure when the roles reversed, but I am very glad that it happened or else we might cave in.

But who knows...we still have about 3 weeks to decide! ;)