And it begins…

I just finished watching the video of this morning’s ultrasound. As I was watching, I was trying to remember what the doctor was looking at just prior to telling us to turn our heads if we didn’t want to know the sex of our child.

I kept watching. Immediately the devil hopped up on my shoulder and said, “Awww, just do it. You know you want to.” And like I always do, I subscribed to the devil’s advice. I thought to myself, “I’ll watch and if I see something, only I will know and I can keep it a secret from Elise.”

So I watched a little longer. I was watching a familiar scene. I kept waiting for what I thought was the point where the doctor told us to turn our heads. I kept thinking, “No, we saw this part. Yeah, we saw that part too.” The angel hopped up on my other should and said, “Now Josh, you know to do the right thing. Just turn your head.” And I decided to listen to the angel. I was going to turn my head when I knew the time was right.

I was watching what the untrained eye would think of as a lava lamp. And then I saw the frame freeze. But the frozen frame was familiar. I quickly realized that this freeze frame was where the doctor marked where Elise’s ovarian cyst used to be. And then I realized that the frozen frame I was looking at was after the doctor told us to turn our heads. Unbeknownst I had watched the part where this morning we were told to turn our heads.

So I sat there and watched the whole thing. I witnessed the part where the doctor and the ultrasound tech could easily determine the sex of our child.

So it gives me great pleasure to know that our first-born is going to be a lava lamp.

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