The scan has spoken. Time to hold off on buying the pink clothes, no need to rush out to look at dolls and princess outfits. For as I had predicted since day one of this pregnancy, we're having another boy. So leaving aside the question of why does no one listen to me on these matters as I have yet to be proved wrong, it is time to celebrate. I have to say that I am absolutely thrilled. Another little lad. I love boys, know all about them. I can play knights and pirates, my footie skills are improving daily and we live very near a train bridge on which hours can be whiled away watching express trains and freight trains whilst being waved at by the drivers. We've got enough boy clothes to sink a battleship. There isn't very much pink in our house. It's how I like it.
I'm always taken aback by the number of people who presume that, with 2 boys, I must be wanting a girl. The honest truth is that I'm not. If number 3 had been a girl I would have been delighted, but I'm equally as thrilled with a boy. I was chatting in the playground with a Mum of 3 girls the other day and we agreed that there's a lot to be said for having a family all of the same sex. Everything just seems a bit easier somehow. Certainly, there is no need to flash me a look of sympathy.
So now we know, the time has come to start thinking of a name. And here we start to run into trouble. For the only issue that I can see with having 3 boys is that we have run out of boys names that we both like. Let the debate (better known as a discussion with some heat in it) commence!
Great news and how exciting! As for names - how about Algernon or Theophilus. (bet you hadn't considered those yet!)
ReplyDeleteWoohoo. Glad all is OK and another boy, how cool
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! All boys will be great fun and no sympathetic looks from me, just envious one! When we finally have another I just know I'll have another boy and I can't wait!
ReplyDeleteThat's such lovely news! Woo-hoo, 3 boys! I have 3 boys, now 19, 20 & 22. And they have a wonderful relationship, they really are great friends. I also have a fourth, a girl, now nearly 17. Aargh! Boys are much easier to raise, believe me!
ReplyDeleteI'm also looking for a boys name. Sigh... It's too hard!
ReplyDeleteAnd congratulations of course!
ReplyDeleteI got so much grief for finding out the sex in the 1st place (I ranted about it.. http://emsyjo.blogspot.com/2010/05/biggest-surprise-of-your-life.html)
ReplyDeleteAnd I'd expect the "don't you want a girl" conversation instead if we go for number 2, ignore them all though and look forward to more slugs and snails!
Congratulations!
Fantastic news! I'm totally with you incidentally. If we do ever have this other baby I keep going on about I'd sort of rather another girl... I wouldn't know what to do with a boy! Doesn't stop people stopping me in the street and telling me I'll want a boy next time (for B apparently....not that he gives a monkeys.)
ReplyDeleteHere's a thought - if you ever want to try out how the other half lives... fancy a swap one day? I'll let you have a nice one!
B is one of three boys incidentally and they are still the most fantastic friends. My mother-in-law now has seven granddaughters though so she's just getting her pink fix a little late!
Great news! Boys rock and your two will love having another little brother. How about a Bosnian name?
ReplyDeleteI had two boys and then a girl (I was also right on each pregnancy as to which it was) but by the end of it I was getting annoyed with people saying to me 'oh you must REALLY want a girl'. We didn't tell people it was a girl but we would genuinely have been just as happy if we had another boy. You are right, there is a lot to be said for having all three the same gender. Congratulations :)Jen
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely blog find. I love this post as it sounds exactly like something I could of written, except about girls. I felt I was having a girl from day one of my current pregnancy, everyone looked at me as if I was a stupid naive schoolgirl 'no it's definatley a boy this time'. I wanted to rip their heads off. Anyway turns out I was right, never doubt a mother's instinct!
ReplyDeleteI too feel a relief in a way, I wrote a post just before the scan about my feelings on it too. I too feel it's actually going to make life alot more straight forward. Same spectrum of interests, toys, got all the clothes. And we know all about girls. I'm happy now to stop at 2 children. I said depending on what this one was I would consider 3, everyone presumed I meant if I had another girl. But for some reason if I had a boy this time I'd then want a 3rd child of either gender after. I wonder if I'll recieve those sympathetic looks?? I hope not, having 2 girls is perfect for me, I'm totally a girls mummy.
Wow, you're half way there then?! Congratulations. I wouldn't know what to do with a girl either. My friend rang me when she had her third son, she said 'another boy' and tutted! Two years on she is thrilled to have three gorgeous boys, she said life is straightforward. As for names, there area few 50's rockers' names that we haven't used ;-) x
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, what lovely news!
ReplyDeleteYay for boys. Congratulations. xx
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on a fourth random variable!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, another little man for you. I bet your sons are thrilled that they're having another brother too. Hope you keeping well x
ReplyDeleteBrilliant news - love little boys.
ReplyDeleteAs for names... if I told you Widget's true name you would laugh. But he lives up to it.
LCM x
p.s. think of an action hero famous in films of the late 80searly 90s
I know exactly what you mean - while everyone seems to think that one each is good and desireable, I'm not fussed at all because two girls may get on better together. So I don't care in the slightest if I'm having a boy or girl. In fact I keep referring to baby as "she" just because I assume that since I have one girl, I'll have another one. We won't find out in advance, and we're also struggling for a boys name (girls name is sorted).
ReplyDeleteBoys, boys, boys! Lucky you!!! How about Tristan? My most favourite name ever (because of All Creatures Great and Small) but I wasn't allowed to have it :(
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!!
So glad all is well and healthy, and how very exciting that you've another blue one on board! Congratulations. Wonder if my next one will be a boy too? I'm assuming yes, and not entirely sure what I'll think if a girl arrives, though saying that, I'll be thrilled either way. Who wouldn't be, having a new baby in the house?
ReplyDeleteTempted by another eight?
ReplyDeleteooh exciting times for you ahead! just found you as your old blog is still listed on cybermummy - see you there? xx
ReplyDeleteSo exciting.
ReplyDeleteLike Jencull, we would have been thrilled with a third boy, and hated people's assumptions that we secretly wanted a girl. (Though unlike Jen, we didn't find out the genders of ours before their births, and I was wrong with my hunches all 3 times!) By the time my daughter arrived, I was almost willing the baby to be a boy, just so I could be totally delighted and prove everyone wrong!
I think part of it was that I quite wanted to be a mum of 3 boys, since they always seem to be so full of vim and vigour, but also a sort of still centre in the whirlwind going on around them. I thought that would be a fun role. I'm not saying your family life defines you, but it does shape you I think.
How about Jasper? Jasper is a great name.
Great news. I saw you tweeting about this so wanted to come over and share the excitement. I could never come up with a boy's name so it was just as well I had a girl in the end!
ReplyDeleteMud - you just won that bet... although I do know an Algernon. Not my top choice of name I have to say, but each to their own.
ReplyDeleteMH - isn't it cool? I'm really whoo hoooing here too.
Mummyfiles - Thanks! Lovely to meet another Mum who loves boys.
Brighton Mum - how did you cope when they were 2, 3 and 5? And so lovely to hear that they have a lovely relationship now. And fun to hear someone saying that boys are easier for once too!
Mwa - so hard. We may have to raid the boys middle names. I will write a blog post sometime about our search for a mutually agreeable name.
Emma - did you really? I found for the first 2 I was in the minority to not find out the sex. Why people give others grief about something that really doesn't matter is totally beyond me
Plan B - exactly. What would I do with a girl? Haven't got a clue! I'll try and let you have a nice day to swop but can't promise anything. Today would not have been a good day at all for example.
ReplyDeleteNVG - trying to think of one that works in both languages. I had a girls name, but can't think of a boys one that isn't weird in English at the moment!
Jen - everyone seems to think that. A few are asking if we are thinking of No. 4 to try again for a girl - we haven't even had No. 3 yet. Gah!
A Muse Inner Me - So funny what people presume. I think that I'm just having to learn not to give a stuff about it, as it really is nothing to do with them and only a lot to do with us!
SC - Buddy? Ritchie? Like your way of thinking!
Jackie - thanks!
VBC - Yay yay yay! :-)
Hampshire Flyer - think the 4th variable may be the one that tips me over the edge! At the moment it is one hand each and then a lead for the dog. How do you control another?
ReplyDeleteMusings - they are pleased, I think mainly they want someone to play the dragon in their knights games.
LCM - Max? Mel? Now I'm curious!
Cartside - We find boys names so much harder. Which is a shame now we are on our 3rd. Can't wait to find out what colour you are having! Must be soon now.
Lorna - I don't think I'd be allowed either. I love why we love different names.
A&U - exactly. Although out of pure self interest I'd love to see how you got on with a girl! ;-))
Owen - 5 a side my total limit!
Nixminx - Definitely, really looking forward to it.
Iota - I'd love to be thought of as a base of calm, but suspect I'd have plenty of whirlwind going on as well. I like Jasper but would always think of Carrots, showing my age and era I grew up in.
RS - Thanks! We find boys names so much harder, have loads of girls names we both like, but the boys names list acceptable to us both is currently at zero.
Yes, Carrots would be a problem with Jasper. I'd forgotten.
ReplyDeleteHello fellow October Mummy. I loved this so much I've written my own twist on girls, and I've linked you in. Check it out. Hope you like it. x
ReplyDeleteIota - But suspect it would only be for people of a certain age who would think that.
ReplyDeleteA Muse Inner Me - Thanks, I'll pop over! Congrats on the girls. Same sex children are fab!
Congratulations! I'm so sorry I'm late to this. I've been AWOL for a while.
ReplyDeleteI'm partial to the names Ian and Evan, myself. :P
Yay! Another pants not knickers
ReplyDeleteYou should speak to my sil who has 3 boys to my two girls about all of that, at least, she says, her house isn't a tribute to net and sparkles!
Congratulations!
Congrats on another boy (sorry I'm so late in catching up!)
ReplyDeleteMy father famously commented that he was disappointed with his first child (me) but pleased with his second (my sister). Humph. Logic being, he wanted a boy, but having got a girl he recognised that two girls was easier than one of each sex.
And I empathise about names. We struggled to find a boy's name we both liked for our first child (a boy!). Our second child was going to be called Boy 2: it remained the only name we both liked. Others would have been a poor substitute. So we were delighted to have a girl!!
Congratulations! I too appreciate many of the same gender - it's just so much easier that way. (Not that I'm planning on making it 3 girls any time soon.)
ReplyDeleteReally looking forward to meeting you tomorrow.