5:02 pm July 22, 200819 Week Check-up: Someone is being voted out of the family
This morning I went in to the doctor for my usual monthly check-up. These monthly visits are short and sweet: the doctor listens for a heartbeat and then asks if I have any questions or concerns. Assuming I have no questions or concerns, these visits can be as short as 45 seconds. Of course that’s after a mind-numbing 30-45 minute wait in the waiting room beforehand. So if I don’t have any legitimate questions or concerns, I make some up… just to help me feel like I’ve gotten my co-pay’s worth.
The kids love going with me to these visits. They love fighting over playing with the infant toys in the waiting room. I told them that for Christmas this year they are getting letter blocks, plastic keys, and one of those wooden rollercoaster thingys, since they seem to love these items so much they will actually fight babies for them. My kids also love to hear the heartbeat once we’re in the patient room. They think it’s awesome, actual proof that mommy is growing a baby and not just getting fat.
So today the doctor walked in and said, “Hey guys! Ready to hear a heartbeat?” And they were all, “Yay!” And then he said, “So we don’t know what this one is yet, right?” And I said, “Not yet, the ultrasound is next week.” So then he turned to my kids and asked the magical question: “What do you guys think it is?” Here is the actual transcript of the conversation that followed:
Jachin: “It’s a boy.”
Zoe: “Nuh-uh, it’s a girl.”
Jachin: “No, it’s definitely a boy.”
Zoe: “If it’s a boy, I am moving to Hawaii. That’s where Miss Jesse, my kindergarten teacher, just moved.”
Jachin (not to be outdone by his sister): “Well if it’s a girl, I am moving to Canada.”
Doctor (to me): “Wow, Canada, huh? You’d think he would have picked Hawaii, too.”
Me (to doctor): “He had to out-do his sister by actually moving to another country.”
Doctor: “So what do you think?”
Me: “I think next Tuesday will be a sad day, because one of them is definitely moving out.”
Doctor: “Well, that’s okay. You’re already used to having just two anyway.”
(Then I made up a few questions and concerns before leaving the room.)
But as far as next week goes, we are working on the situation both ways. We are calling Miss Jesse to see if she has a spare room for Zoe on the BYU Hawaii campus, and we’re getting an expedited passport for Jachin and teaching him lingo from the movie “Strange Brew”. Either way, when Tuesday comes, we’ll be ready.
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I love the strange brew comment. You’re funny.
Comment by Sam — July 22, 2008 @ 7:14 pm
This reminds me of a video I saw on America’s Funniest Home videos where the mom tells her son and daughter the sex of the baby she’s expecting. One of them celebrates and the other one bawls. It sounds like that’s what you’re in for! Good news is, if you get in on video, it could be worth $10,000!
Comment by Leslie — July 24, 2008 @ 1:22 pm
Why is it that all kids are attracted to those toys in the waiting room yet they wouldn’t touch those baby toys at home? Maybe we should turn their bedrooms into waiting rooms and they’d actually play there.
Comment by Amanda Petite Mommy — July 24, 2008 @ 6:07 pm