Paul came to visit us for an extended weekend- finally! He
hasn’t been out to Baltimore in years (well really just 2 but it seemed a lot longer)! Dave and Paul hung out a watched some hockey at a bar as men will do on his first night. It was a long night for them and it took a while to drag the hubs out of bed the next day. Which was a big day for us. This was the day that we were finding out the gender of our new baby. What?? Maybe I am a little ahead of my story telling. At this point I was 17 weeks pregnant (now 30 weeks). Even though I am a self-proclaimed slacker of the blog posts, I could not post anything about this until I at least told my extended family in July.. and of course now its a bit after that.
So that Saturday night way back in May...
That evening Jen, Tiffany, and Ryan came over for a little party. A gender reveal party that is. The gender results were in early because due to my ripe maternal age, they do an additional chromosome test called Maternity 21. This tests for some additional chromosomal abnormalities (other than Down Syndrome). The extra result you receive on this test is whether you are carrying a XX baby or an XY baby. I had the results sent to me in a sealed envelope and handed it off to Jen. Several weeks prior, when I told her I was expecting, after her need to jump off the bay bridge had passed (due to the some 28 women she knew were pregnant at the time), she told me about the great gender reveal party trend. I naturally had never heard of this huge trend because I am so out of what’s ‘in’…so true.
That evening Jen, Tiffany, and Ryan came over for a little party. A gender reveal party that is. The gender results were in early because due to my ripe maternal age, they do an additional chromosome test called Maternity 21. This tests for some additional chromosomal abnormalities (other than Down Syndrome). The extra result you receive on this test is whether you are carrying a XX baby or an XY baby. I had the results sent to me in a sealed envelope and handed it off to Jen. Several weeks prior, when I told her I was expecting, after her need to jump off the bay bridge had passed (due to the some 28 women she knew were pregnant at the time), she told me about the great gender reveal party trend. I naturally had never heard of this huge trend because I am so out of what’s ‘in’…so true.
So everyone gathered at our house and Jen arrived with a beautiful cake spattered with pink and blue fondant polka dots. I had food and drink and made people wait until dark to cut the cake to find out. We all chose a lea with the color of our guess. The girls and I were wearing pink leas, everyone else was wearing blue. I had been pretty sure it was a boy up until a couple weeks before the party when I started getting the pink vibe… we’ll see!
Dave, Lucy, Stella and I all sat around the dining room
table with the cake in front of us. I cut one side, Dave cut the other side of
the slice and began to slide it out. The knife slid out first and I saw a smear
of blue. I thought to myself right away, bummer, I saw it too early! I wondered
if Dave had seen as well. So as I was sitting there already knowing the gender
and waiting to see Dave’s face, the entire slice came out. The layers of
frosting were pink, pink, pink. What??? LOL It was pink. We are having a girl.
Apparently one of the blue fondant polka dots got stuck to the bottom. I was ecstatic.
I have everything, girl and I know girls, yay!!! But I know Dave was hoping to
even out the playing field and I wanted that for him too, but we are not in
control of our little babies and someone gave us another little girl who will
be showing her tiny face in October!
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