Thursday, April 24, 2008

Finally, Some Testosterone

My husband's family swore up and down when they married their three boys off that their offspring would produce nothing but males. I heard it too many times to count. Fast forward ten years later. The ratio of boy grandkids to girls is 1 to 4. Hello Karma! Those four girls have Papa Dale wrapped so tightly around their fingers that I'm pretty sure he would don a tiara and a tutu just to make them smile. It's a sad, but very sweet, state of affairs.



It is for the sake of my poor son, surrounded on all sides by girls, that I welcome the newest (and yet-to-be-born) member of the Hale clan, a bouncing testosterone-producin' baby boy. Congrats Ben, Stacie and Kaylin!



5 comments:

  1. Similar story here - I only have sisters...my dad wanted at least one boy sooooo badly. Now he has five grandsons who borrow tools, beg to drive his tractors and other motorized vehicles, and generally drive him crazy. When he complains to my mom, she shushes him immediately reminding him that she had to share jewelry, make-up, tampons and assorted other sundries during what's known as the testosterone-dryspell during the mid 70s to early 90s. It all comes around, doesn't it? (By the way, love your blog!)

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  2. Yup. My two sisters and I have 5 boys between us and 1 girl. We finally produced a girl! the first for both sides of our family.
    Baby girl is the first with my husbands last name. His father has a brother and a sister. The sister has two girls, but they don't have the same last name. His uncle has four boys and DH is one of four boys as well. They were so proud to finally have a girl with the last name.

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  3. I have been anxious to hear the results of the last doctor's visit. How exciting!

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  4. Congrats! I came from a family of girls so naturally, I decided to only have boys. And so it continued with my five cousins til finally one girl was born. That opened the door because now my latest cuz to have kids has only had girls! Best not to try and figure these things out.

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  5. Hey, if I had know anyone was watching, I would have said no to the tutu, but, in my defense, the tiara was my size, and, Oh, so shiny!!

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