PEANUT AND LEMONS!!

April 23, 2021

 Dear “Peanut,” 

      Tomorrow is the big day! Tomorrow is the day when we drop the anonymous name “Peanut” and find out your gender and your name. Your parents have known your gender since day one – modern science is amazing. When my babies were born, your Uncle Jay and your daddy, the gender reveal was in the delivery room when the doctor announced “You have a ______.” In my case, both reveals were a boy! Your parents have not only known your gender, I suspect that along the way, while you were still just a dream, that they discussed your name and probably had pretty much nailed down the what the school principal will call out at graduation when you have earned your diploma! One name for a girl- another name for a boy! Everyone in the family has made a guess as to what gender you are. Most believe that you are a boy. I have no idea why they have zoomed in on a boy. Your mom and dad have been stoic in their insistence that we wait until tomorrow for the “big reveal.” They have given not the slightest clue. I, on the other hand, believe you are a girl! Your mom has an app on her phone that has allowed her to hear your heartbeat. Again, amazing! One Sunday after lunch, she let us listen to your heartbeat too. It sounded strong and fast! There is an Old Wives Tale that claims that a fast heart beat indicates that the baby is a girl. A slower heart rate means the baby is a boy. That same theory says that a mother carrying a girl will have morning sickness. Even though your mom hasn’t had morning sickness, I’m sticking with my feeling: girl. With that said, someday when you read this letter, I want you to know this one fact for sure: IT DOESN’T MATTER AT ALL TO ANY OF US IF YOU ARE A BOY OR A GIRL!! What does matter is that you ARE! You are thirteen weeks in gestation, the size of a small lemon, and we are all crazy about you. We hardly can wait until October! For now, it’s one step at a time…we found out about you in March, tomorrow we find out more. Then in October, the biggest reveal of all. YOU!! You to see, you to hold, you to watch grow. And you can believe it Peanut, you will be surrounded by love and we will all be watching! 

 Until tomorrow Peanut. 

 I love you! 

 BB