A Girl (We're pretty sure)

So I'm about 90% sure that we've got a girl.

What's the remaining 10%? Well, I've only got the grainy Rorschach-like ultrasound images to go on.

But we're moving forward under the assumption that we'll need things in pink.


So here's what's happening in my mind this week.

I'm glad to have the gender (mostly) determined. I was not out for one over the other, but was curious about the gender, so that I could go ahead and put the question to rest. Someone asked if I was disappointed that its a girl. I said no, absolutely not, but I would say that I'm a little more nervous about it being a girl rather than a boy. The reason, as best I can figure, is that - well, I'm a guy. All of my assumptions and "experience", based on my own childhood and upbringing are from the perspective of a guy. So a girl is completely uncharted territory for me. Plus, I'm already terrified about dating and such, because I know how guys are. Talk about cart before the horse.

We've been discussing nursery painting. Krissi has been eager to paint the nursery since we found out, and while I'd been resisting, I'm on board now. We've been talking seriously about painting it with a jungle theme. As in, paint the walls in some color, then paint trees and animals and stuff. It seems exciting and cool.

Gender stereotypes have been on my mind lately. Again, I have a theme of putting the cart before the horse. Perhaps it relates to a story I heard a coworker tell the other day, of a small boy who was playing with his sister's dolls, and a father freaking out. Krissi waffled a little, when we made up our minds that its a girl, about whether to do the jungle theme, or something more 'girly'. I asked if girls deserve cool jungles as well, and we agreed that they do. I sortof feel like I'm making a mountain out of a mole hill, but I suppose that its all I have to do - the baby is still incubating, and so I just get to be anxious about all the stuff that will come after April. So I'm down with girls getting pretty things, but they should not be restricted to only things that are 'pretty'.

We're tossing names around. I've gotten a great deal of amusement from tormenting Krissi with name suggestions like "Sith Lord Williams", or "Wikipedia Hamburger Williams", or any number of other ridiculous names. But we're trying to consider other names that we can both agree on. Isabella has been a top contender right from the start. We both sortof regret naming our cat "Zoey", because we think its a great name, and sortof want to have it in the running for a kid's name. In truth, our cat goes by the name "Kiki" though, and there's no cat-birth certificate to prove otherwise.... maybe we're on our way to having our own Indiana. Other names that we've thought about: Madeline, Alexa/Alexis, Elora, Fiona. So we're kindof all over the map. Hm, how about Kylie or Kaylie?

We're slowly starting to assemble a baby registry, and make plans and do research on stuff that we need. Grandma/great-grandma is taking care of the crib, which is cool, since they can be quite expensive. Shopping for baby stuff is both fun and torturous.

Quick shout out to my homies, Maddie and John, also of Clan Williams, though through no blood relation. They're having twins in January.

Last note for today, on finances. We've been paying off old outstanding debt for the past couple of years, and are getting somewhat close to having most of it paid off. The job setback for Krissi was particularly unfortunate, because it pushed all of our payoff timing back some. And with a baby on the way, and knowing that we need to pay a few grand to the hospital, and to her doctor, and plus all of the things that we'll need for a baby, its a little nerve wracking. But we're very fortunate in that we're not destitute. While we may be a little tight, we haven't had to cancel internet service, or sell my laptop, or eat bologna sandwiches. But it still makes me anxious.