No Gender Disappointment Here

People always ask when you first get pregnant "Do you want a boy or a girl?" Its like they are asking if you like cats or dogs. Before we got pregnant with our first child my husband wanted a boy. The conversation came up with some friends at a dinner party and I asked him why. "So, I can play catch with him and things like that." I have been an athlete most of my life, playing soccer and basketball all through high school and running cross country and track through college. So, I took this comment as somewhat of a slap in the face. One of my long time friends seemed to be reading my mind. "You think a daughter of Liesl's is going to have any problem catching and throwing?" she asked him. "It's just always what I envisioned in my head." he answered.

A few months later we were pregnant. We decided not to find out the sex and for it to be a surprise. For me it was because I didn't want my husband to find out we were having a girl and be disappointed for the next 20 weeks. I knew once he was holding that baby he would be in love no matter what it was, that's just how he is. So for 34 weeks I listened to my mother in law tell everyone how she just knew it was going to be a boy. People at work tell me how they thought it was a boy too. This actually started to make me very upset (hormones did not help anything). I told my dad how everyone thought it was a boy and what was so wrong with a girl! "Well, I think its a girl, but then I thought your brother was going to be a girl too." he said. I laughed and this somehow put me at ease. Whatever it was it simply didn't matter. 

January 2012 our little girl was born. Just as I expected my husband didn't even care that it was a girl. He was so excited to be a dad. She is now two and puts on her Seahawk shirt and grabs her football every Sunday and watches football with her dad and papa. 

When we got pregnant with our second my mother in law started in with the "this one is going to be a boy." My husband was a whole different guy this time around "I don't care either way but I sort of hope its another girl so Lyra can have a sister. Also, we won't have to buy more clothes!" I decided to find out the sex at 20 weeks this time just so people would just stop telling me what they thought. I wasn't worried about the sex at all with this one after I saw how the whole family had feel in love with Lyra.

We now have two beautiful daughters and people still ask us "Are you going to try for a boy?" And our answer "Nope." We have decided our two girls is all we need to feel complete and content with our family and my husband went ahead with a vasectomy last week. "I thought we were going to get a boy" my grandmother said when she found out. "Sorry, talk to my brother about that one." I answered.      

Lyra, Etta and Daddy watching the Superbowl