It's a GIRL!!!

Yesterday my wife and I went to the doctor to get an ultrasound for our third child (due in April). We currently have a three old son and a nine month old son. I was under the assumption that we just wouldn't have a daughter. For some reason I just didn't see us as parents of a girl. But low and behold, when the nurse was searching around my wife's belly with her magic wand lavished in goo, she came across an image that was undeniably a little butt and some little legs, but no little wiener. She looked at my wife and I, and asked to make sure we wanted to know the sex, and we nodded in agreement that we did. Then she uttered the words, "it's a girl." I could see the excitement in my wife's face. She would finally have a teammate in the household sarcasm wars. I was shocked, and still am. In fact, I am not sure I will believe it until the doctor actually holds her up after delivery, and says, "say hello to your daughter."

I know this sounds like an odd situation to be worried about already considering our daughter is not even born yet, but I am not looking forward to walking my daughter down the isle someday. Now my wife will attest to you that I am not a very emotional person. Sometimes she will tease me and say that I do not have a soul, because I never get choked up about anything. I am now, and have always been a true believer that everything happens for a reason. Which at times keeps me from being emotional about it. Or it could be that I just cried so much as a little kid, that I am just all cried out now. But anyways, I can not think about my little girl getting married without welling up, in fact, I have tears in my eyes right now. I don't know if deep down inside that is what kept me thinking that we would only have sons, or if I was just really looking forward to some really good two on two basketball games in the driveway (I am sure that will still happen, I am sure she will be a huge tomboy). Anyways, I am thinking that having a daughter may bring back my emotional side. I mean she is not even born yet, and she already has tears running down my cheeks. I am sure she will test me over the next years, but she is now and will always be Daddy's Girl.