At Home Gender Tests- Anxious Much?

Since discovering we were pregnant with baby #3 back in February, I have been on a (solo) mission to find out this baby's gender since Mark thinks I'm nutty for trying so hard. I have done this with each pregnancy, the waiting game is NOT my thing.

With every test I try and reveal our baby's gender I would either get excited or confused and Mark just laughs at me and says, "it's 50/50". Luckily, I have plenty of friends that humor me and and add to my excitement, thanks ladies I know you understand. 

Since finding out we are indeed having our third BOY here are the tests I did and results. (Hope you're not squeamish about urine!)

1. Baking Soda test: 

Put enough baking soda into a cup to cover the bottom, pee into the cup (or a different cup then pour it in). If the baking soda fizzes (not just air bubbles) you're having a boy if it doesn't react, you're having a girl. 

Mine had no reaction, GIRL.

Baking Soda Consensus: Wrong

2. IntelliGender Test: 

The most expensive potential waste of money. $39.99 at my local CVS this lovely test proved correct for my first two boys so I put all my stock in it this go-round of course! Once again, use your urine to mix with these lovely magical crystals, (read the directions) swirl it around and the results read in 5 minutes. My result was Boy, no question. 

IntelliGender Consensus: Correct (for a 3rd time)

 3. Chinese Calendar: 

This is always the first thing I check when I get a positive pregnancy test. This test was correct with my boys.

Age: 30 (I know, I don't look a day over 29)

Conceived: January 

Prediction: BOY

Chinese Calendar Consensus: Correct (for a 3rd time)

4. Cabbage Test: 

This one was probably the most involved. Oh hey, and it uses your urine too! Cut up a red cabbage (it's purple). Boil some water, enough to cover the cabbage. Don't add the cabbage to the boiling water. 

Pour the water over the bowl of cabbage. Let sit for 10 minutes then strain the blueish-purple juice. 

Pour blue cabbage water into a glass. Not too much.

Pee in a separate cup. (not shown)

Mix equal parts urine and cabbage water.

Results Pink or Red indicate BOY.

Purple indicates GIRL.

I was kind of unclear. So I did searches on YouTube and Instagram and although it definitely does not look red to me, it is definitely not the purple I saw in other's girl indicators. So I'd say this result was also boy. 

Consensus: Correct

5. The Palm Test: 

Have a friend ask you to show your hands. 

If you immediately show your palm, it’s a girl. Palm down, a boy. 

I was playing mind games because I thought I had done this one before and was trying to do what girl was and ended up being wrong by showing my palm down. BOY. 

Consensus: Correct

6. Wedding Ring on a String:

Hold the wedding ring on a string still over your stomach or wrist. If it begins moving in a line it's a boy, if it's a circle, girl. I tried this for a while, Mark tried too. It went in a circle then line and I just said forget it. 

Undetermined, fail!

4/5 predicted boy for us, which were great odds! Disclaimer: Of course everyone's results are different and only the doctors know for certain what you are having. Blah, blah, blah.

All of these were fun to do. After the few dollars I spent on each test I probably could have just spent the same amount going to an early imaging center to know for certain, but what's the fun in that, LOL. Baby #3 is a boy, that is for certain. Let the C naming begin! (You knowwww I already have a name chosen, come on.)

The (Rainy) Days of our Lives

Lately we have spent a lot of time inside because it has been raining like stinkin' Seattle. I can almost not handle it anymore. Our fields are marshes and our ponds are mucky rivers. The lakes are up, awesome! My patience though, is low, very low. 

Here are a few activities we've had to pass the time. 

Playing with royal blue play-doh, not the brightest of ideas but the brown was getting so boring. Every time I say, you lick that play-doh one more time it goes in the trash... I lie.

Letting the kids play in my closest, fun, yet not fond of the outfit choices. 

 Crew continues to explore Cobly's anatomy. "Weewee", "Ew wee".

I'm backkk

I've decided to start blogging again! I previously used this page for photography but since that has it's own site now I can use this to complain, I mean talk about how amazingly fun my kids are! 

Typical situation in the office, one kid on my lap, the other just squeezed a leg on my chair and they are now screaming at each other, "he touched me!" and "NOOOOO!". 

With the snap of a finger Copelan is hungry and only wants pancakes.

So there's that. We are a mess, but we are all still happy.

It's almost Mother's Day, we don't make a big to-do of it so I'm expecting a card.

 I left out a $20 off card to SunGlass Hut in hopes Mark would buy me the pink mirrored Ray-Bans I've been hinting about. I checked the code today to see if it had been used. 

I'm getting a card, and I will love it. 

These are the things I wanted for Mother's Day incase Mark reads this: