When I was pregnant with #4, I was pretty sure she was a girl. In fact, the day the test was positive I told the Computer Guy, \u201cI\u2019m pregnant. It\u2019s a girl. Her name is #4.\u201d Just like that. Even the ultrasound guy with his less than confident, \u201cI\u2019m 70% sure it\u2019s not a boy.\u201d was not enough to shake my confidence. Until I went into labor.<\/p>\n
Then I panicked. I was a few hours from having a baby that might be a boy because 70% sure it\u2019s not a boy is way different from 100% sure it\u2019s a girl. See what I mean? And if the baby was a boy he had no name except #4, and what kind of name is #4 for a boy? <\/p>\n
We debated boys names for about an hour, me frantically and the Computer Guy in his half-interested my-wife-has-lost-her-mind way. We agreed on nothing. Then I got a brainstorm to let the television pick a name for us. (What? You don\u2019t name your babies this way?) My brilliant idea was that he would push the up channel on the remote until I said stop and we would name him the first boy name we heard. Simple.<\/p>\n
On the first time, I let it flip through all the channels twice only to stop on the movie Horatio Hornblower. Horatio. Um, no. Let\u2019s give it another whirl.<\/p>\n
Second try, PBS\u2019s biography of Horatio Nelson Jackson, the first guy to drive across the United States. Horatio again. No. I did tell my sweet husband that if we hit another Horatio that I would take it as a sign that that was his name and the discussion would be over.<\/p>\n
Third time\u2019s the charm and we landed on CSI:Miami. Yup, good old Horatio Caine sealed the deal. Our son Horatio. <\/p>\n
The nurse came in and asked if we had baby names picked out and I piped up, \u201cYes. #4 for a girl and Horatio for a boy.\u201d The Computer Guy rolled his eyes and looked pained.<\/p>\n
She was a girl, of course, our own sweet #4. But every time I tell that story I can just picture God and Gabriel and Michael and all the rest hanging out on a couch watching us and Gabriel calling out, \u201cHey, Mikey, double or nothing I can make her hit it again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When I was pregnant with #4, I was pretty sure she was a girl. In fact, the day the test was positive I told the Computer Guy, \u201cI\u2019m pregnant. It\u2019s a girl. Her name is #4.\u201d Just like that. Even the ultrasound guy with his less than confident, \u201cI\u2019m 70% sure it\u2019s not a boy.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n