Gender Bender

We have decided not to find out the gender of the baby this go round, and when I say "we" I really mean I made the decision for us. Russell does not like surprises, so it's no wonder that he doesn't want to wait until delivery. He has asked repeatedly if only he could find out, but if he knows he would most definitely let it slip in some way, thus ruining the surprise for me! I gave in to his desire to know while pregnant with Jeremiah and with Lilly, but seeing as how this will be our last child (fingers crossed, knock on wood and all that stuff) I WANT MY SURPRISE! Now, I know some would say "But you have already had sooo many surprises in the last couple years, how could you possibly stand to have another surprise? Especially about gender?" Yes, both pregnancies came as a surprise or a shock (however you want to put it). But if I can handle these surprises, something like gender is a tiny thing compared to finding out I was pregnant 5 months after having Lilly. 


I have a feeling though that this one is a girl. My reason for this is that, other than the asthma stuff, this pregnancy has been identical to my pregnancy with Lilly. Russell, like any father (of course), wants another boy. 


Jeremiah, however, wants a boy but says it will be a girl. He said the whole time with Lilly that she was going to be a girl. He was so insistent that it was a girl that when I went to my ultrasound to find out, I asked him what he would do if it was a brother. His response, "It's not gonna be!" A and Z have no preference at all. Although, I think A is hoping for another sister because she is afraid that any brother is going to annoy her and bug her as much as her other ones do. 


I am planning on doing as many of the old wives tale gender predictions as I can. I will post the results on here and some time at the end of May we will find out how many of them were right!