Boy or Girl?

This day and age it is "normal" to find out the gender of your baby before you have it. That leaves you with another big decision, should you find out or should you leave it a surprise like it has been for thousands of years before.

I personally always said that I wanted to wait for the surprise, I did not want to go with "the norm" and find out halfway through my pregnancy. However since "my pregnancy" is not technically just mine, I am sharing this experience with my boyfriend/baby-daddy; and he wanted to find out whether we were welcoming a little baby boy or a tiny little girl into our lives. Because we both wanted different things, we compromised. He was okay with him finding out and keeping it a secret from me for the remaining 20 weeks. I was not okay with that.

So the compromise I came up with, was a "gender reveal party". Rather than sitting in a doctor office and having some ultrasound tech saying "It's a boy" or "It's a girl". I forced my sister to plan and execute a party where I found out the gender in front of all my close family and friends. In order to do this she got the privileged of finding out the gender before everybody else.

I really liked the way she decided to reveal the gender to me and the rest of the my family. She could have chosen to have a cake with pink or blue inside so I would be surprised when I cut into it, she could have simply bout a pink or blue article of baby clothing  and wrapped it and given it to me. There are hundreds of different options, but she decided to do scratch offs. Everybody at the party got one and we scratched them at the same time. These revealed whether my little stinker is going to be a boy or a girl.

ITS A GIRL!!!!! 

I love that I will be able save one of these scratch offs and put it in a baby book or shadow box with other baby mementos like the first ultrasound picture. This is definitely one experience I will never forget and in no way regret going against my first desire to not know ahead of time. I now have more time to prepare for having a little baby girl, which may be needed since we have not had any girls in our family in over 13 years. I have broke the testosterone streak!