A Boy or a Girl?

Today is the day - 3:30 this afternoon to be exact. And barring an uncooperative baby we should be able to tell if I am already ready or if I need to go on a major shopping spree.

And the family predictions?

Scott: "I predict it will be a boy or a girl."

Me: I honestly have had no feelings one way or the other. I generally discount my feelings on stuff like this since they are usually terribly inaccurate. The only dream I have had about this baby was about a week ago. I had the baby at 20 weeks and was 1. surprised that I had delivered. I didn't realize it at the moment and 2. I was surprised that the baby was full term. Could the doctors have messed up my due date by 4 months? When I realized I had delivered the baby there was no announcement of whether it was a boy or girl. But it looked like a boy. Don't all newborns look the same though? So that's what I have going. A wacky dream and no feelings either way.

Taylor: "Probably a girl"

Bennett: "A girl"

Owen: "cereal. cup." - You can see his mind was on eating, not predicting the gender of his future sibling.

Maylee - Now her prediction was a little harder to understand for several reasons.
1. Maylee is our dog
2. Maylee is not the brightest dog around.

So I devised a highly scientific experiment to see what she thinks. I took a pink cup and a blue cup and put a treat of the almost exact same size in each cup. I put them about a foot apart. My hypothesis was that the first cup she went to and ate the treat out of would be her pick. And yes, I am aware that since she is a dog and she does have some sort of color blindness issues, this may be a bit difficult for her to pick the right cup based on her prediction. But I figured that she has had a few pups in her lifetime and she's a dog. Aren't they suppose to have special powers?

The results of my experiment didn't go quite as planned. First I had to show her the cups. She wasn't picking up on the idea that there were treats in them for her. She then went to the blue one first but couldn't get the treat out fast enough for her liking (ie 2 seconds. Did I mention she wasn't that bright?). She abandoned the blue cup, went for the pink and ate the treat in the pink cup first. Then went back and got the treat out of the blue cup. I hadn't anticipated this. So this blows my whole hypothesis out of the water. My conclusion is that Maylee predicts that I am having twins - one boy and one girl.

I will let you know.....