Boy vs. girl

OK ... for those who don't want to know (my father-in-law, for example), I won't be revealing whether we're having a boy or a girl until the last paragraph of this entry. If you don't want to know, skip it. I'll do my best to not refer to the baby as "him" or "her" too much during the next few months, but I can't make any promises.

I don't get people who want to wait to find out whether it's a boy or a girl. Like Amanda said, "It's a surprise no matter when you find out." That's why we agreed early on we wanted to know as early as possible.
That would let us narrow our name choices, start buying the right kinds of clothes and set up the baby's room in a gender-appropriate fashion (which wasn't really a problem, as we went with bright green as the predominant color).
We also wanted to check how accurate the Chinese Gender Chart was (http://www.thelaboroflove.com/chart/). It said we were going to have a boy. (And even the ultrasound technician said the thing is usually right).
Then there was Amanda's logic on the issue. She was convinced we were going to have a boy because of how queasy, absent-minded and moody she felt. She figured having baby boy hormones in her system was throwing her body off-kilter. (Conversely, a friend of ours suggested that those sounded more like girl hormones; a boy would have made her more logical and rational, he deadpanned).
On top of all that, Amanda's mother dreamed it was a boy.
It seemed pretty heavily weighted in one direction (the hormonal meanderings of our friend Chad notwithstanding). But does any of that mean anything?

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SPOILER

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In this case, the gender chart, Amanda and her mother were right. We're going to have a little boy. So there's only one surprise left -- the name. We're pretty much set on one name, but we're going to keep it to ourselves until the big day (exactly three months from today). Still, we're willing to take suggestions if anyone has any ...