Posts Tagged “Pregnancy”

No Longer Boy Versus Girl

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You may remember a while back we discussed the upcoming addition to our family and Xavier expressed a preference for a boy baby. There has been progress on this front. After lunch yesterday we were talking and the conversation turned to “coconut” (because saying “unborn baby” is tedious). I mentioned that we don’t know if…

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Week 22 Ultrasound

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Week 22 Ultrasound

This morning we went to get an ultrasound of our upcoming child. We had a friend come over and watch the kids and she made them pancakes for breakfast (our appointment was downtown at 8:30 in the morning). We asked the older kids if they wanted to go, but they wanted to stay and have…

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A Boy Coconut?

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We were all upstairs getting ready for bed. It was that time after bath and just before stories. While discussing names for the upcoming baby it came out that Déla thought it would be a girl, but Xavier was determined that we would be having a boy. “What are you going to do if it’s…

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Due Date

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Due Date

Laura had the first ultrasound for our next child. According to all the information we have (an exact science using size of fetus, date of last menstrual cycle, “reading” chicken bones, and some phrases uttered in Aramaic) the baby is due April 27. This means, if history is any indication, we’re going to have our…

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Whoops?

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Kid number 6 is due towards the end of April. It’s not like we were trying, actually we were sort of trying to be careful. Things happen. People ask if we know what we’re going to have. There are two things wrong with this. First, Laura is only about 7 weeks pregnant, a little too…

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