Le Bébé, C'est Un Garçon

At the mid-pregnancy anomaly ultrasound scan, we had the option of finding out what gender our baby is. Instead, we decided to have the midwife call someone that would make us the delicious "gender cake" seen here.

In lieu of a full-blown gender-reveal party, we did the revelation with our Bible study small group. Blue cake means it is a boy! We have thought it might be so all along (from how easy it was to agree on boy names), until I switched votes over the last couple of weeks. I suppose you really cannot trust dreams; two about a baby girl using some names on our shortlist was enough to convince me. Either way, we are very excited to finally start using "him", "he", or "son" in reference to the baby.

His mother is in her 23rd week at this point and doing well. True to form, the 2nd trimester has been calm. In 125 days, we look forward to welcoming this little boy home. For my Ugandan family, I hereby present a Baluku (which will become his middle name). I know this was the expectation, par tradition.

We do not have any first/given name for him yet, but we have a shortlist of 6 boy names from which we will choose just before birth.