Baby Chronicles: Gender Bets

We had our 16 week check-up yesterday afternoon and the little leech is doing well. The baby has the double whammy on the brat front with both the Cook and Johnson genes and was showing off just how bratty even a baby can be. It took two people running the heartbeat monitor to finally get a read on our leechie. S/he kept avoiding the monitor and just when they'd find the heartbeat, the baby would move away and they'd have to hunt around again. Lil brat! The doctor said that the baby's heartbeat is 145-150.

We're taking bets now on whether le leechie is a boy or girl. I've now had 3 dreams of a girl and 2 dreams of a boy. Ironically, in one of the girl dreams, the child was a monster and in both of the boy dreams the child was a monster. Not literally, but figuratively. Russ thinks it'll be a boy. I think it'll be a girl. What do you all think? Let us know!

We have our next appointment December 12th. I'll be 20 weeks by then and we've been promised to know the gender. We'll keep you posted. I think I may just take that whole day off to go on a gender-specific shopping spree. Clark, I promise to give you a ring and let you know whether to buy blue grips or pink grips for the baby's first golf clubs!