I don’t have a preference for one gender over the other, but last night I had a dream it was a girl. It was weird – it involved diagrams and pictures somehow derived from my ultrasound.
The cashier at Motherhood Maternity in Yorkdale Mall is also convinced it’s a girl. The one time I met her, while purchasing my new dress, she eyed my belly and the following conversation ensued:
Cashier: “You’re having a girl”
Me: “Oh really? How can you tell?” (trying to be polite, as I think all the old wive’s tales on gender prediction are a bunch of hooey).
Cashier: “The way you’re carrying. Oh! Let me check my Chinese Astrological (something-er-other) Predictor Book” (She flips through…) “What month did you conceive in?”
Me: “Uh.. December”
Cashier: “And how old are you?”
Me: “24″
Cashier: “Yup, you’re definitely having a girl. I’ve only been wrong 2 or 3 times in 3 years”.
Me: (thinking silently to myself: “out of how many predictions, five?”)
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Oh gotta love people like that.
Someone was convinced that I was having a girl, he was hardly every wrong, blah blah, well, had a boy. 
I mean, the woman has a 50/50 chance she will be right. LOL
Comment by Krista March 15, 2008 @ 12:44 amI’m loving the updates. Thanks. I told Auntie Ev today that Evelyn was the name you were thinking of if sprout is a girl. She was thrilled. I’m looking forward to being a great (very good) great aunt!!
Comment by Karen & Gary March 17, 2008 @ 5:12 amJust as long as there’s a baby in there, it doesn’t matter if Sprout
Comment by Nana & Nonno Ricci March 18, 2008 @ 2:55 pmis a girl or boy. Although I have to admit those little pink dresses are pretty adorable!
was she holding the book upside down?
Comment by naomi April 2, 2008 @ 9:05 pm