Is It a Boy or a Girl?

Soon we'll find out whether Megan and Ryan are going to have a boy or a girl (see the Ryan and Megan Smith blog for the latest pregnancy update!). Everbody's placing bets on which it's going to be.

The whole guessing game is fun. How fast is the heartbeat? How does Megan look from the back? There are all sorts of "sure fire" predictors. Who knows whether any of them are accurate.

As far as whether they'd prefer a boy or a girl, there are plusses on both sides. If it's a girl, then Megan will have someone to dress up and do girl things with, and Lori (Dana and Jorge's daughter) will have a cousin around the same age, and they can be best buddies. If it's a boy, then Ryan gets to show him how to throw a ball and do all those other guy things, and the Smiths and Hernandezes ("Hernandi"?) will have one of each between them, and a mixed set of cousins would be cool, too.

What it gets down to is this: kids are a blessing, no matter what you get, if you've got the right perspective. Looking back through God's rear view mirror (to borrow an image from Jim Rice) what you're given turns out to have been the exact right choice. People sometimes ask me, "Do you ever regret not having sons?" No, I really don't. Because I've now got two through marriage, and God chose them just as surely as he chose Megan and Dana.

I'll keep you posted on baby Smith!