Pace Picante - it does a body good!

This my friends has become my most favorite thing to eat, yep, Pace Picante sauce. It started a few weeks back at our friends house where I couldn't stop eating chips & salsa.

I started by buying a jar at the store one afternoon. Which resulted in a second jar a few

days later and last week we moved up to the Costco size!

I am in love with this stuff!!! I am eating it on eggs, by the spoonful, with chips and just about anything else I can get my hands on it with. (not so good on toast)

I guess baby Boy D really likes the spicy stuff but not sure my hubby likes having Taco's every other day!

***update*** My friend reminded me, his due date is Cinco de Mayo 5-5-2010

Baby Boy ultrasound pictures

I am posting a few ultraound pictures from last Friday. Some of these I will not post on FaceBook - specifically the one showing that he is indeed a BOY!

I think he was saying "Hi Mom"

His sweet profile

His cute little feet

And finally..........the one you are all waiting for I am sure. His manhood in all it's glory. The white spots on either side of the"dangle" are his hip bones. This is a few looking down on him, he is already head down in position.

We are soooo very excited and feel like God has truly blessed us!

Baby #3 is a........................ BOY!!!

Yesterday was the BIG day! We were sooo excited and anxious all at the same time. The night before I had another crying episode telling Bill "if it's another girl I will just not feel complete" He said all we need is a healthy baby. Always the tower of strength & reason that man!

I could not sleep much that night. I even came downstairs had a snack & turned on old TV shows to try to lure myself to sleep. I ended up watching an episode of Mr.Ed. You know the one with the talking horse? Do you know what the show was about at 3:30 in the morning, another horse having a colt...and at the end of the show it was a BOY horse. I sat up on the couch and said out loud to myself & the dog...."You've got to be kidding me" Later, that morning I asked Bill if it was a sign to which he replied "from Mr. Ed?"

So we headed to the appointment, Grandma and Grandpa met us there to watch the girls during the ultrasound. As we walked down the hall to the room the tech asked if we'd be finding out the sex of the baby? Ummmm, duh! Yes, we would like too Bill tells her.

I get on the ultrasound table, she splatters me with the warm goop & begins moving the little thing around my tummy. And no joke, in like 30 seconds she says "Looks like 3rd times a charm with you guys, you're having a boy" - I was in shock....."Say what??" Which she says again "Ohh yeah it's a boy". I start crying and look at Bill whose eyes also are a little wet. It was such a magical moment!! We were in shock but yet sooooo excited.

After a few minutes Bill left to go get the girls and the Grandparents. I asked her "So you're sure it's a boy?" to which she replied "Ohh yeah, I've seen him 4x now, it's a boy" I just laid there in awe....Thank you Lord!!

Bill's parents were so excited. His mom cried a bit too. Ellia was excited about seeing mama's baby on the TV. And Addie, well she didn't know what to think. She just wanted mama. So I held her while trying to let the tech still maneuver the little thingy over my tummy.

Later, Bill and I went out to lunch & to see the movie the Blindside. Great movie! Not after updating Facebook and texting the entire world! All day we kept looking at ourselves and saying "Can you believe it? "

Guess all those wives tales proved to be correct with us!! Now we just have to settle on a name.

I will try to get some pictures of his ultrasound on here later today.

Countdown to baby Gender #3 - Intelligender Test

Tomorrow is the day!!! The day we find out if we are having a boy or a girl. Tonight is going to be the longest night of my life for sure. Who knows if I'll get any sleep.


But in keeping with our posts all week today we will examine the last Wives Tale that Bill and I have tried. This one involved a bit of money, $30 to be exact.


We heard about this Intelligender Test through Bill's cousins and from the moment we heard I knew I wanted to try it. Basically, it's a test invented by a doctor to tell you the gender of your baby after you are 8weeks along. It has a 82% accuracy rate around the world and a 90% lab accuracy rate. So given those odds we had to try it!

We bought the test after searching hi & low at 3 different stores. And again we had to wait till the next morning so we could capture my first morning urine.
You have to extract the urine with this syringe thing & squirt it into a hole on the lid. Then you have to swirl the mixture DO not SHAKE is what it says. So careful not to shake Bill swirled the mixture for 10 seconds and then we left it for the designated time of 10minutes. The results are based on the mixture changing colors. Dark color like brown or green for a boy. No change or yellow-to-orange color for a girl.

And when we checked it 10 Min's later the mixture had changed colors - to reflect a BOY reading.



Of course we didn't believe it and had to check it against the Intelligender website and again it would appear that our test result was reflecting a positive BOY test.
So there you have it. We have tried 4 different Wives Tale during this pregnancy. And the results add up too:

1 for Girl - Chinese Gender chart
3 for Boy - ring test, Drano test & Intelligender test

Guess we will just have to wait and see what happens tomorrow. If it turns out to be a girl then we were not lucky when it came to Wives Tales and if turns out to be a boy then it would lead me to think there is something behind these wives tales.

Countdown to baby Gender #3 - Drano Test

Today, in our countdown we will look at the Drano Test wives tale. We had heard of this wives tale while we were prego with Ellia but somehow we weren't as impatient with either girl to try it.

Here is the concept behind the Drano Test:

2 TBSP of Drano Crystals
medium jar or glass *note this is very important - we learned the hard way*
2-3 ounces of mom's urine, preferably the first morning urine



Put the Drano crystals into the jar/glass and pour the urine into the jar covering the crystals. Make sure to do this outside as their will be a rapid chemical reaction and it is best to stay away from the jar while the fumes are being produced.
**Warning** When you are done you will need to dispose of the mixture very quickly as it has a very bad smell and may be caustic.


If the mixture darkens to a darkish color or brown within 10 seconds you are having a BOY
If there is no darkening or color change after 10-15 seconds you are having a GIRL

So on a Sunday morning in November we got up early, captured my first morning urine (which is hard to do when I am already peeing like a mad woman. But rest assured if you have gone more than 4hrs it can be considered your first morning urine) and Bill took the urine out to the garage with our "small" glass of Drano crystals. We waited in anticipation as the mixture........began changing color......and producing fumes, bubbles & after a few seconds began boiling over our small cup. Not before we were able to determine that it was a darker color & I snapped a few pictures. Bill then rushed the glass outside, burning his fingertips a bit as the glass was HOT.

These pictures don't do the color change justice as the color did get very dark.

Bill watching the mixture change colors

There you have it, the Drano Test said - BOY. Has anyone ever tried this one?

Countdown to baby #3 Gender - The Ring Test

Today, as we countdown to Friday we will look at the "Ring Test". And I should note that I have been corrected that all of these things we've been testing out are called Wives Tales......whatever!

The Ring Wives tale is basically this - Suspend a pure gold ring on a piece of string over the mom to be stomach. If it swings side to side = a Boy and if it rotates in a circle = a Girl.

So I first saw the ring test done on Bill's cousin Sarah when she was very pregnant with her little girl, Georgia. It should be stated that Daren & Sarah did NOT find out what they were having and the ring spun in circles, almost knotting up the string! The same wives tale was done on his other cousin when she was pregnant and it too was correct, they had a girl after 2 boys

Here is Dave performing test on Sarah

I was determined to try out this wives tale. Bill and I started trying this test very early on with no real luck. I think you have to have a little bit of a tummy for it too really work. But at Thanksgiving I had Bill's cousin, Dave perform the ring test on me. (it should be noted he was the one who had performed the prior two ring tests on the other cousins) And what did our bewildering eyes behold??? A note able side to side swing action - indicating a Boy.

But I wasn't done there. This past weekend at our friends house during their daughters 2ND birthday party I had our friends perform it not only on me but also our friend. See she is due in Feb and already knows what they are having. She was our control subject. The ring swung side to side = a boy & they are having a BOY!

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Here is Lindsey - our control subject

Then it was my turn and I laid down on the floor. My stomach not as big yet as her stomach but still there. We couldn't get the ring to be still and everyone laughing. After a bit it appeared to rotate in a circle, to which I reacted by snatching the ring & string from my friends hands. It was then that I learned they were playing a joke on me and doing deliberately. Wrong, just Wrong!! Once we got the ring still & me calmed down it did do the side to side swing indicating BOY!

So there you have it the Ring test. Have you tried this one?

The Coundown to baby #3 gender begins

Today, is the beginning of the 5 day countdown till we find out what Baby#3 gender is. And to say we are anxious, scared and excited is and understatement!

For weeks now I have had dreams of a baby girl AND a baby boy. More specifically a boy with brown eyes and brown curly hair. I have also had the dreams where we are told it's a " " and when it's born it's the other. So I am ready to know.....whatever it's gender may be....I WANT to know!

Is it bad to say here that I've even had thoughts of faking pains or something to get into the doctor earlier for an ultrasound? And is it bad that one of my friends even offered to lightly rear end us (not to cause damage to vehicles) just so we could say we were rear ended and make a visit to the doctor??? Should I mention that I haven't felt this baby move yet either!

So in anticipation of the Big Gender revealing day Bill and I have tried just about every wise tale on the Internet in hopes of trying to discover this baby's gender.

Today, we analyze the Chinese Gender Chart and every day this week I will post about each of the wise tales we have tried & their results. All post leading up to Friday where we will post Baby #3's gender!!

The Chinese Gender chart is based on the mom's age at conception & the conception month.

My age - 32
Conception month - August

Predictor - Girl

**Now it's important to note here that with Ellia the Chinese chart said "Boy" and we know that wasn't true. It was however right with Addie. So with this specific Wise Tale gender predictor we are 1 for 1.**