Boy? Girl? What it really comes down to is socks.

Tomorrow I go in for my ultrasound which should reveal the sex of this baby. Honestly, David and I will be happy with a healthy baby of any sex. A baby is a baby. I will admit, though, that at some point I would like that baby to turn into a girl; maybe this could happen around the age of 3 or 4. I've talked to my friends who have little girls and there is a difference between boys and girls. Really. Now I know there are pros and cons to both. I would never assert that one sex is better than the other. At least not on a public blog. And I like my boys. What I don't like is their dirty socks laying all around the house. Wherever David removes his socks they remain... for days... until I pick them up. Sometime last year Jackson decided to follow his father's example and began leaving his socks laying around. Since I'm bigger than him Jackson actually listened when I threatened to throw away any dirty socks I found laying around. For several days it seemed as if Jackson was depositing his dirty socks into the laundry basket. And then I found about five days worth of soiled socks shoved into a cubby of our downstairs desk. Later that day when I told this story to David he said, "Oh yeah, Jackson mentioned to me a few days ago that he was doing that." Now you would think a good father would ask his son to remove the socks immediately and put them in their proper place, but in David's world and in the world of boys a desk cubby is a perfectly acceptable place to stash dirty socks. Are you beginning to understand why this household is in need of some more female influence? I've found socks in so many various places inside the house and out that laundry day can be like a treasure hunt. Only the treasure is a dirty sock. Now that both boys are in school I'm feeling like I have more time to have some fun with this before the baby comes. I'm thinking that after I do laundry I'll hide the clean socks around the house for David and Jackson to search for every morning as they try to get ready for work and school. Maybe I'll even mix it up a little and hide a mismatched pair here and there.