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Sharon pointed out to me the other day that I never wrote in here what the sex is of our baby. We found out last Monday when we went for another ultrasound that we’re having a girl.

When I tell people this, the most common thing that’s said to me is “Is that what you were hoping for?” or something to that effect. Finding out the sex of your baby isn’t like putting a quarter in the vending machines at Wal-Mart and finding out you got a blue bouncy ball instead of green. It just doesn’t go like that. I’ve noticed that it’s mostly single people or a childless person that has asked me that question so maybe you just have to be in the position that I’m in to know. When you find out that you’re going to be a parent, you don’t go out and buy a baseball bat in the hopes of a boy or a doll in the hopes of a girl. The first and foremost thing you hope and wish for is a healthy baby no matter the sex of it. I’m going to have a baby girl and I can’t be happier.

I wrote yesterday that we are looking at a house. Let me give you a visual on this house. When you pull up next to it, you see a sunporch that’s screened in. It’s a fairly large porch, about 8 foot wide and running most of the width of the house. You enter the house from the sunporch and walk into the kitchen. There is counter space on the left with a window over the sink on that side. On the right is bare wall for about 6 feet and another counter running along that wall and following the corner to the far wall, ending next to the exit from the kitchen. Going through the kitchen brings you to a small area with a storage cabinet along the left side and two doors, straight and right. Going straight takes you into the bathroom which is a little on the smallish side with a toilet, sink with vanity, and shower. No extra room in there. The right door takes you to a bedroom which was unfinished when we saw the place. The previous occupants where trying to build a closet it looked like. You can pass right through this bedroom into the second bedroom which needs some wall repair and a patch job on the floor. Two windows provide plenty of light in this room. Taking a right out of the second bedroom takes you into the living room which will take you into the kitchen if you go through it. The whole place is very circuitous. In the living room are two more doors, one to the basement and the other to the attic. With some work the attic would be very nice. It’s not very big, most of it is crawl space. If the crawl space were covered over with drywall though, there’d be a nice little office area up there. The basement is very large looking since it’s mostly all open. There is one end of it that is sealed up with a wall and two doors but it’s a small area. There is a sink and hookup for laundy on one side next to a door leading outside and also in the basement is a stove. It looks like maybe at one time it was rented out as an apartment or something.

If you can’t tell, I’m very excited about the house. If Sharon’s dad talks the bank down a few thousand dollars and I qualify for a 30 year mortgage, this will all work out very well. With the mortgage we’d take out a home improvement loan which would cover the costs of repairs to the house and enough extra to pay off my debts. With interest rates on mortgages as low as they are, this would be a good thing and give us plenty of extra money per month.

Everything is all happening at once right now and I should be stressed but I’m not. I’m so excited to be a dad and I’m so excited about the house that I just can’t be stressed right now.