Son or Daughter?

On April 17th Micah and I went to have our first ultrasound. Now, before I give away what cold, hard science tells us the gender of our firstborn is, you have to hear all the reasons why we thought we already knew.(10 perfect toes)

1. The first time we heard the heart beat, baby's heart rate was 174 beats per minute. Sharon, Jon's mother and a very recently retired nurse told us that that usually means it's a boy.

(Come on. Vogue.)

2. Over conference weekend, we strung a gold ring (several different gold rings, several different times) by a string and held it over my womb. Each time it would swing back and forth on its own. (To test this method we did the same thing over Callie's womb to see if it would swing in a circle since she is having a girl - and it did - every time. We also did the same thing over Carlie's womb and it did nothing every single time.)

(We already think baby has my nose. Doesn't it look like you could smash it all the way to the face?)

3. Our next door neighbor, Oscar is an elderly gentleman from Brazil. The first time we told him we were having a baby he asked me how far along I was and told me to turn around. I turned in a circle and Micah said he was watching my feet as I turned. After a complete circle, Oscar said in his charming Brazilian old man accent, "Congratulations! It's a boy!"

4. The Chinese Lunar Calendar told us we were having a boy.

Now here's the scientific version of all that: