Another Williams on the Way!
This is already old news for many of you, but because my efforts to tell people individually have been a bit random, I’m finally getting around to the formal announcement. Lisa and I are expecting our third baby around the beginning of May!
We recently had our ultrasound visit to determine the gender, and… (drum roll please) … it’s another boy! Nana’s scorecard now reads: Boys – 6, Girls – 0. Quite a run for the little men. I know that some of you were rooting for a girl this time around, for the variety if nothing else, but I’d like to point out that maintaining a standardized testosterone level among your children does have certain advantages. They wear the same clothes, like the same toys and movies, and enjoy doing surprisingly similar things (which would probably include burning the house down to the ground if we weren’t watching, but that’s another story). The point is that having all boys, in some ways, simplifies and focuses our task of parenting.
After going 3-0 on gender I’m feeling that the verdict is in, but some of our friends continue to argue for the truth of the 50-50 School of Conception: that the odds are always evenly split between having a boy or having a girl. These clever statisticians, with their talking points about penny-flipping and probability, can be fairly convincing. But ultimately, I think the idea is a little over-reductive. Sure, the overall population of the earth is going to approximate something very close to a 50-50 split (unless China has any say), but I think that individual couples might well have a genetic propensity for making one gender more often than the other. It’s just easier to explain large all-boy or all-girl families if you allow for the possibility that the parents’ gender odds were somewhere around 70-30 or 80-20 to begin with. The thing is, no one is really interested in helping science to pin this one down. Come on folks, you would only need to have around 50 children to reach a sufficient sample size… but I digress.
We haven’t picked a name yet, so we’re running with the codename “W3C” for now — that stands for “Williams 3rd Child” and is a little pun at the expense of the World Wide Web Consortium. Ha ha. Maybe you have to be a web geek to appreciate it.
I’ll keep you posted as we edge closer to the little guy’s due date!