Boy. Boy #3, otherwise known as Baby X. I think I already knew it was a boy–I kept envisioning three little tiny boys in red print bathing suits running around on a beach, and I’m pretty sure they were all my kids. I wish I knew all their names, though, that would help, as I’m at a loss for what to call Baby X. I would love suggestions. Oh, and he’ll need a super-secret blog name as well, I guess.
(Martin is really J., by the way, and Chris is actually J. Martin and Chris are their blog names, mostly because of the thrill “Martin” gets from knowing that I’m calling them after his favorite creature-adventurers: the incomparable Martin and Chris Kratt. Also because I felt a little unsure of a preschooler’s legal expectation of privacy, particularly when it’s a given that at some point, his mother will be telling stories to the universe about some sort of toilet-related behavior. I also hedged at the last minute at posting the ultrasound picture that showed, in shockingly explicit detail, precisely why this baby was defined as a “boy.” I felt a little guilty at possibly humiliating him like that.)
(Oh, and I will save for another time the slightly panicked feelings that I’m having–too early–about how I’m going to do this. Have a third (third??!! Oh, crap!!!) baby, that is. That doesn’t seem like a welcoming caption under a baby’s first appearance–as a recognizable human being, at least–to the world.)
(And, also, I will save for later how likely it is that someone will eventually get a smack in line at the coffee shop for making a not-cute-even-though-they-think-it-is remark about having a third boy and how it’s too bad it’s not a girl…. Time enough for that unpleasantness.)
I would have loved to have a tribe of little boys….what a lucky mother you are. I hear you on the internet privacy concerns. Hard to know what’s right.
When I was pregnant with my first, we found out we were having a boy and told another couple that we ran into at a conference. The woman said, “Oh! Don’t worry! Ultrasounds are often wrong!” I was stunned.
Congrats to you and the pic is beautiful
Congratulations. I agree that the panic is better spent on how to handle three than on the gender.
I find out about my No 2 tomorrow…
Vikki–you’ve GOT to be kidding me!
westward–I hope the ultrasound goes well–I look forward to reading about it…
burro– hey, a little “tribe”…. I like that!
I love name picking. You’ve already got two J’s. Did you do that with purpose? Because if you did, I think you need to stick to your guns and go with another J name.
I’m committed enough to your third son that I actually went and did a search for boys names with J. I think I like Jaden and Jahmal the best. Jahmal is Arabic for handsome. Nice, hunh?
Oo! Oo! My sister did the J name thing. When she had her third after a good 10+ year gap, we were all wondering whether she would stick with it. (She did.) Congratulations. I love that image of you dreaming about your boys.
Oh, the J. thing is haunting me right now. I totally didn’t want to do it, but I just loved those two names, and always have. Now, I can only think of J. names–and thanks to you, serahrose, I have more to add to the list. But I’m resisting it! Perhaps because my two siblings and I were M,M,M, and my mother swore she didn’t do it on purpose, and I never quite believed it….until now….
It’s too bad you don’t have a girl. Maybe next time.
Congrats!
Woo hoo! I didn’t have an ultrasound, but we’re fairly certain that we are having our fourth girl.
But like you, I am much more concerned about my general sanity than the gender of the child at this moment!
Ooh ultrasound photos are so exciting. I can’t believe people say such insensitive things about a baby’s gender. So ridiculous.
If your third son is ever worried about his nekkid pictures on the internet you can tell him that we could all pretty much see his brain too – and it was HUGE.
Ooh ooh ooh. Frustrated mother of girls who may never get to name a boy… Can I suggest names? Please?
For J names I love Joe, Jack (though that’s kinda like calling your kids John and John isn’t it), Julian, Jude, Jake, Jonah, Jasper. My best friend’s brand new baby boy is Jethro.
Branching out into the rest of the alphabet:
Charles, Nicol, Claude, Finn, Harry, Griffin, Oscar, Alistair, Sacha.
And I have a character called Trout. I’ve become very fond of him and his name. Would take a brave person to use it, but I’m putting it out there into the universe. And he’s the third boy of three boys (his real name is Trevor, you can see why he prefers Trout).
Congratulations on another little human.
oh! I got that excited feeling in my belly for you while reading this!
Oh, and he will always be the adventurer Martin to me! I just can’t picture them with other names!
I wish I had done that. Every time I write “hannah” and “sam” I feel slightly like I’ve betrayed them by giving their info to this ambiguous internet-world.