Adding to the Handful

I know my blogging has really taken a hiatus and my apologies but there has been a reason for the absence. In addition to taking care of three one year old toddlers, I've also been trying to take good care of myself because we're adding another blessing to our family, in July actually! It seems that whenever the kids are napping, so is Mommy, so I haven't had a lot of free time for blogging but I'm hoping to do better now that I'm in the second trimester.

So this baby has kind of been a secret for awhile now so it's nice to finally share with you what's been going on with us. We've been anxiously awaiting the day when we could find out the gender of our baby. It's been interesting reading about all of the old wives tales and other signs about gender prediction. Here's a few examples:

• The Chinese Gender Chart predicts that we're having a GIRL based on my age and month of conception.
• No morning sickness = BOY.
• Sleeping on my right side (I normally sleep on my left) = GIRL.
• I've been craving lots of sour and salty foods/drinks which claims I'm carrying a BOY.
  
• The heart rate has been in between 150-160 beats per minute which is supposed to mean it's a GIRL.

Now I've never really had an inkling one way or the other about this baby's gender but we thought perhaps, it might be a GIRL because we already had some girl names in mind with no prospects for a boy. See, many years before we even got pregnant with the triplets, we had 2 GIRL names and 1 BOY name picked out. So when we found out we were having 2 GIRLS and 1 BOY, we were thrilled and all set! However, even though we already had the names picked out, we didn't want to give them away so we often times told people that we were naming the triplets Phyllis, Willis and Amaryllis. See, these names rhyme with our last name so people would look at us like we were crazy!

Anyhow, we decided to do one more gender predictor test using cake. We had heard of other people doing this and that it had always turned out accurate. Plus, who doesn't like having an excuse to have cake?! So my mother made two round pans of cake, coloring one pink and one blue. Then she cut each in half, stacked them, and combined the two stacks to make a full size layer cake. The cake was frosted completely so that the colors underneath were completely concealed and some sprinkles were thrown on top for added fun!

Next, Eric had to spin the cake...

Then I got to cut the cake. I was really nervous! So what did the cake predict?

BOY!

So today we went in for our big ultrasound. Here's our baby blessing, who looks perfect!

We also were excited to see if the cake was accurate. And the verdict is...

It's a BOY!

The cake was right and we cannot be more thrilled! We're especially happy that Jamison will have a little buddy. This baby BOY is due right around my 30th birthday, what a gift! Now we've got to figure out a name for this guy. Any suggestions? Right now, I'm thinking that I'd love a name that has an "i" in it but ends in"n" but I'm open to your ideas!