It's another BOY!

So yesterday afternoon I was not so surprised to find out we were having another boy. I was expecting it since I was in the hospital a couple weeks ago. You see all of my sons have had heartbeats per minute between 130-145 never higher. My midwives have an unofficial, ongoing study about bpm and gender. The study shows that roughly 80% of the time at 12 weeks gestation 150 bpm and lower = boy and over 150 = girl. When the nurse at the hospital clocked baby in at 140 bpm I started really preparing myself for the reality of 4 boys under 5 years of age. Their future athletic director should thank me now :) So I guess we are going to have our own personal FFA chapter; no not future farmers of America (although I would love that for my sons) but future fathers of America :) So let the ER visits for lacerations and broken bones continue (otherwise there would be no fun to be had!) Getting all of them to adulthood alive will be my biggest accomplishment.

On another note my due date has been pushed forward to August 20th. While I know I'll be miserable by then, the chances of my husband being able to drop everything and attend the birth greatly increases the further away we get from July (frantic combining). And since Josiah was two weeks early and over 8 pounds, it's safe to say that this boy will come securely in August. Which is also good because John and Jacob are July birthdays along with 9 other family members!

I thought the name for the this boy was hammered out, but John didn't expect to actually use the name, so now for the first time we don't already have the first name picked out. If you have any ideas the criteria is this: has to begin with the letter J, has to be biblical, cannot end in an "ah" sound, and cannot begin with Jo. Picky, I know. I never thought I would have to come up with so many boy names so quickly!