baby news

As most of you have probably ascertained through twitter and FaceBook, we were handed down the verdict on the baby yesterday….and the jury came back BLUE.

I guess you could say at this point that my mood is cautious excitement.  Just to be completely honest, and I hope to not sound like a terrible father, I really didn’t want another Hayden.  Don’t get me wrong, I love that boy with everything I have, and he is truly a blessing.  However, I have been around many families with two young boys, and things can get a little…….chaotic.

Hayden and the One Who is Not Yet Named will only be about two and a half years apart and this scares the poop out of me.  Hayden, by himself, is three handfuls and a half, and the prospect of adding a partner (in crime) to that dynamic is intimidating.  I didn’t realize how much more energy and patience boys require over girls, but suffice to say, it is a lot.  Hayden NEVER stops going.  It is one of the coolest things about him, because there is never a dull moment around the house.  However, on the flip side of that, he wakes up at 6am and doesn’t stop cranking until 8:15pm, which can be exhausting.

All in all, I think it will work out better in the long run for several different reasons.  Go go gadget bullet points!

• He and Hayden can share a room.  I really want Channing to have some privacy as the oldest, and if it had been a girl, she would have had to share her room.  She will be 7 right after the birth of TOWINYN, and that is just too old to be sharing a room with an infant.
• TOWINYN and Hayden should get along much better.  One of the scariest propositions of having a third child is that you also create a middle child. We all know how that can work out sometimes.  Had the baby been a girl, I think this really would have escalated that whole situation and Hayden would have felt really left out.  He is still finding his place, and having a little brother will give him a reference point.  A “constant”, if you will.
• Ben Nevala is trying to take over the world, and the forces of good must field warriors to offset the coming armageddon.  Baby boys=warriors.

Thanks for reading and caring about what goes on in our lives.  Peace.