I took the boys to the hospital
sibling class/tour to prepare for our upcoming birth, it's been
awhile...
They each had their own "baby" to practice swaddling,
holding, feeding and diapering.
By happenstance, they each got their
preferred gender. Leo is set on a sister while Joseph wants another
brother, "No pink or purple stuff!"
Leo
likes the name Kiki and Joseph's choices reflect his classmates and
their siblings: Rio, Diego, Omar. Jude thinks it's a girl and I can
talk myself into either one, I've only gotten sick once (with a
migraine) and I don't feel that big, but my shirts are starting to get
short! I am still on progesterone. However, I have thought both of the boys were girls, so of course this baby is a boy too! Feel free to make your predictions in the comments!
Leo, who is in a bit of a clean-freak stage, was not pleased to put the "dirty" diaper back on!
There was a short video along with some photos of what the newborn baby might look like. At one point the instructors showed the umbilical stump and asked what would be left when that fell off. Leo enthusiastically replied, "It's penis!!!" Clearly pink and purple would be the least of our challenges :)
After
class we visited the chapel and Joseph wanted to place a prayer
petition on the "prayer gallery" wall "[G]od bles mome and dad and
Joseph and Leo and the (on the back) baby uncles and aunts family and
friends."
