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Nothing too major happening this week. According to my weekly e-mail updates, the baby is about three pounds already. I don't feel like I'm necessarily expanding too much anymore, but the baby is filling up the space in my belly more. There's a lot of action going on in there all the time.
I had this very strong belief at the beginning that the baby is a boy. I have to admit that maybe that feeling isn't so strong anymore. At this point, I really just couldn't tell you what my hunch is. My father is absolutely convinced that it's a girl and I've never heard him speculate on such a thing before. There's others that are also convinced it's a girl, but just as many people absolutely convinced it's a boy. Obviously, somebody is wrong. John and I have joked that maybe we're having a boy that will turn out to be gay.
Perhaps my initial hunch was based on wishful thinking. I'm not entirely sure why I would prefer to have a boy first. I guess I've always just gotten along with boys better. I've always had more guy friends than girl friends. I guess I've done fine with both genders in my work, but the girls often try my patience quicker with their cattiness. I tend to like more traditionally guy stuff than girl stuff and I'm very not frou-frou, in general.
I think I may be the only person in the world who finds it way more fun to shop for boys than for girls. When I was working in retail in a kids clothing store, I was always picking out stuff for my brother, who was the perfect age for it at the time. If I really liked something, I'd even get the large sizes for myself. I still have a dinosaur sweatshirt that I love.
Plus from a practical perspective, having a boy first would probably mean more viable hand-me-downs no matter what gender our next child is. I have no problem putting a girl in more boyish clothes, but you can't put a boy in dresses, frilly things, or pink crap. Not that I'm planning on buying much frilly or pink crap if it's a girl, but I'm quite sure my mother would, as would others.
So I'm hoping it's a boy, but I'll be happy to take what I get.
I had this very strong belief at the beginning that the baby is a boy. I have to admit that maybe that feeling isn't so strong anymore. At this point, I really just couldn't tell you what my hunch is. My father is absolutely convinced that it's a girl and I've never heard him speculate on such a thing before. There's others that are also convinced it's a girl, but just as many people absolutely convinced it's a boy. Obviously, somebody is wrong. John and I have joked that maybe we're having a boy that will turn out to be gay.
Perhaps my initial hunch was based on wishful thinking. I'm not entirely sure why I would prefer to have a boy first. I guess I've always just gotten along with boys better. I've always had more guy friends than girl friends. I guess I've done fine with both genders in my work, but the girls often try my patience quicker with their cattiness. I tend to like more traditionally guy stuff than girl stuff and I'm very not frou-frou, in general.
I think I may be the only person in the world who finds it way more fun to shop for boys than for girls. When I was working in retail in a kids clothing store, I was always picking out stuff for my brother, who was the perfect age for it at the time. If I really liked something, I'd even get the large sizes for myself. I still have a dinosaur sweatshirt that I love.
Plus from a practical perspective, having a boy first would probably mean more viable hand-me-downs no matter what gender our next child is. I have no problem putting a girl in more boyish clothes, but you can't put a boy in dresses, frilly things, or pink crap. Not that I'm planning on buying much frilly or pink crap if it's a girl, but I'm quite sure my mother would, as would others.
So I'm hoping it's a boy, but I'll be happy to take what I get.
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Date: 2007-01-26 04:07 pm (UTC)From:What would Grace have been named had she been a boy?
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Date: 2007-01-26 03:55 am (UTC)From:Uh, babbling, I guess, is my forte tonight :-) Blah blah blah...
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Date: 2007-01-26 07:36 pm (UTC)From:I found the most awesome second-hand kids store the other day. Um, I mean kids clothing, not actual used kids. I was considering flying you down here to go shopping, although since I've never been in any other second-hand kids store I realized maybe they are just this cool and filled with bargains everywhere. As if I'd know what a bargain on kids clothing even is. I was afraid to buy anything yet because I'm convinced you're having a superhero that will blow to hell all those sizing theories on the tags. Like 0-3 months? Who says? What if the superhero comes out larger than the average 3-month old. Wait, that thought might be scary to you, so I should stop typing now...
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Date: 2007-01-26 10:48 pm (UTC)From:Basically, there's a consignment shop that moved to Tonawanda on Delaware from the Boulevard recently (it's across from our favorite car insurance place) and it's great. She's very picky so all her stuff is high quality and name brand. Mom picked up a great devil costume off the clearance rack that may or may not be too big come Halloween.
Not doing too much clothing shopping until after I see what we get at the shower, but I'm pretty much trying to get bigger than the 0-3s as our suspicion is, of course, that this child won't be in them for that long. We'll need some, obviously, but that's what most people buy for gifts. I try to go a size up or two for other people. And then you have to try to figure out what season that child might be in that size. It's kind of mind boggling.