Went to the routine ultrasound with my wife. Babypony #2 is due sometime around 8 Aug. Having a son, we naturally wanted a girl this time, but just mostly hoping everything’s all right.
Having all my new dad jitters gone with Babypony #1, almost three years ago, I settled in to watching the monitor and glance the upcoming trades in the baseball world in my Sporting News.
Last time, we went down to a clinic and paid $150 to get an extra ultrasound at the halfway point to determine the sex. Babypony #1 happily obliged and waved his wanker at the camera. This time we wanted the baby’s sex to be a surprise. No big deal, just wanted to do something different.
Just as I was going over the Atlanta Braves’ prospective opening day lineup, Babypony #2, in a graphic display of inherited traits and behaviors, flashed the ultrasound waving his wanker in full glory. No cooperation with mommy and daddy, even before birth.
After my wife finished laughing, the doctor gave me the “It’s too early to tell yet” speech, but even he was smirking as well.
Well, at least we can get bunk beds now and I get to keep the computer room for a few more years.
Lucky you. I love little boys. They have a way of tugging at a mom’s heart. Beleive me my son is rotten to the core and it’s all my doing so I can’t complain, and he’s 20. Congratulations on the new one.
I’ve learned that if someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it.
It would be interesting to let the Dopers help pick the name. I conceded to my wife’s Protestant Bible-background and she selected Joshua Timothy. It’s cool, I can live with that. The irreverant, nun-baiting Catholic that I am was sorta hoping I could pick out the name from a science-fiction novel or from a really weird patron saint (we got lots of them!!).
I love Mrs. Bluepony, but Baptists really need to work on their sense of humor.
actually, having 2 boys isn’t so bad… just do what we did. have 2 girls immediately afterward. the way i figure it, this way (with 3 and 3) no one can complain whether the seat is up or down…
“…for i am always a lady, archy… always a lady. i did not do anything vulgar. i simply removed his right eye with my left claw.”
mehetibel the cat on the subject of marraige