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For all of you who have been placing bets on the gender of our baby, it’s time to collect.  Or pay up if you’d put your money on a girl.  We had an ultrasound yesterday and saw that it is a boy - no mistaking it.  We also were able to see that he has four chambers in his heart, a stomach, and kidneys.  All good things to have. 

Next on the agenda is finding a name.  That should be an interesting task.  We’ve had thoughts of names in the past but we’re not decided on anything yet, so we’ll let everyone know when we’ve made our final decision.  If anyone wants to submit suggestions feel free to leave us comments.  I suggested to Nate on Sunday that we name our baby Pastor Scott.  That way when we’re late for church we can say, “So sorry we’re late, but we had to change Pastor Scott.”  That would be funny. 

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The other day a friend of ours told me about an old wives tale for finding out the gender of your baby. We’re planning on finding out the gender, but when I heard the test I laughed and told Nate that we should do it so we could post about it on the blog…so here’s the post.

The test is that you get powdered Drano and mix it with the urine of the pregnant woman in question, and the gender of the baby is determined by the color of the mixture. Warm colors like red, yellow, orange and brown indicate a boy and cool colors such as blue, green or purple indicate a girl.

So we got some powdered Drano (who knew that even existed), and mixed it in a small bowl with some of my urine. The mixture immediately started to smoke and give off these horrible fumes. It was sputtering and fizzing and Nate was saying, “Ashley! Don’t breathe that!!” We took the bowl outside and opened all the doors and windows, turned on the fans and waited for the lightheadedness to go away. After a few minutes we took a look at the mixture and the color was a brownish-greenish color. So we’ve conclusively decided that we’re having a boy… or a girl.

As a side note, we’d like to add that the test really should never be done since you are in essence mixing bleach and ammonia which is a toxic combination (pdf). So leave it to the professionals - like us.

We didn’t really want to post a picture of the test on the blog because let’s face it, that’s just gross. So here’s a picture of my growing belly (17 weeks) instead.

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