I can't believe how fast we are approaching the halfway point of this pregnancy! Exciting! Somewhere around there we will have a sonogram and make sure all is developing normally but not (gasp) find out the gender of our baby. This drives our friends crazy! Dave's best friend even offered to find out but keep it from us last time. I am pretty sure he was joking! I can't really tell you why we don't want to find out. I guess we like it to be like in the old movies where the baby catcher announces "it's a..." I hear the funniest things from strangers about it too! One lady told me "Well, I wanted to pick out a name." Umm, I got to pick out two names, one for a boy and one for a girl. Then I heard "I wanted to decorate their room" Yeah, we did that too. Our nursery is white with safari animals. It is cute for a boy or girl and we haven't had to buy all new stuff for every baby. Plus, it was a lot of fun to decorate Emma's room for a big girl when she moved out of the nursery. With the girls it wasn't hard for me not to find out. I don't usually get anxious until the last few weeks to know who will be joining our family. This time is a little harder for me. I don't know if it is because it is our last baby or because we will be having a baby in a new season and I don't know what will work from last time. But we will wait to find out who is in there until they make their first appearance in Sept. I did hear a really compelling reason once to wait to find out what the your having until birth. Most of us deep down have a preference about boy or girl, at least a little. Finding out what you are having at the sonogram can often lead to disappointment, at least for a moment. Don't deny it, I have heard many of you say, oh, I really wanted another boy or wanted that little girl. But if you wait to find out what you are having until you meet your baby it is really hard to be disappointed at all looking into those beautiful little faces!!! And she didn't want a moment of disappointment about her baby.