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Let’s play Guess the Hatcher Hatchling…

by Lorenia

I am full term this week (37+ weeks) and exhausted. AND super cranky. Oh, man, SO cranky. I still have a million things to do before the baby is born, but most of them involve organizing and cleaning… so I need a distraction. A fun one. This is where YOU come in!

I think pretty much everyone knows that we haven’t found out the baby’s sex. We thought it would be fun to have it be a surprise (who knows what we’ll decide for subsequent baby-havings) and we also knew it would keep me from buying pink tutus if it’s a girl (or, you know, blue tutus if it’s a boy) and from having the bedroom next to ours end up looking like Strawberry Shortcake horked in there. So, there’s that. There’s also the fact that in spite of my due date being June 12th, the doctor shakes her head every time I have an appointment and just says it’ll be born any time between NOW and the end of June. (How I am surviving with this much suspense when I like knowing everything in advance baffles even me. George, on the other hand, adoooores surprises.)

And this is where the game-playing comes in. Let’s play guess the delivery date and sex! Just a few rules…

  • YOU CAN ONLY “PARTICIPATE” ONCE. YOU GET ONE VOTE… and it must be in the comments section of this post. Not on our statuses. Not via text message. And please, be really clear. “May 29th, girl” is fine. “Tuesday, boy” is not. WHICH TUESDAY?! And you really can guess any date in the next four to five weeks. We’re not going to induce labor unless I go over 42 weeks, much to my OB’s chagrin.

  • Any given date only has two options. Like, June 12th can be “June 12th, girl” or “June 12th, boy”. Once someone uses a date and a sex, you can ONLY pick that same date for the opposite sex. And a “June 12th” vote counts as any time between 12:00:00am EST and 11:59:59pm EST on that date. (Eastern Standard Time since that’s OUR time zone and therefore, the baby’s birth date time zone.)

  • You cannot change your guess once you post it… and you cannot post more than one vote. If the date comes and goes… sorry, Charlie.

  • Once the first email, text message, or phone call goes out that I’m in labor, voting is closed.

  • Check the comments before yours: if someone already picked the date and sex combination, you can’t pick the same one. If you are too lazy to check and thereby end up posting the same combo someone else already posted, the first person to have posted the correct one wins.

  • If no one guesses correctly, we will just give ourselves a prize! Just kidding. :) If no one guesses correctly, the person with the closest guess wins. If someone guesses May 27th and someone else the 29th, and the baby is born May 28th, the winner will be determined by whether the baby was born before or after noon.

    The prize: It will probably take a couple weeks to get to you (especially if you don’t live locally). Also, if you don’t live locally, you’ll obviously have to provide us with your address so we can send it to you. We have some ideas on what the prize/gift will be, but it’ll definitely end up being something personalized and tailored to the person who wins (for example, we’re not going to give one of our sisters the same thing we would give a guy friend). No matter what it ends up being, we’ll try to make it something we think the specific person would like and appreciate.

    May the person with the creepiest capacity of foreseeing the future win!

    Edited to add: OK… there are a ton of guesses being repeated despite half the calendar being totally empty. Remember, guys, your vote does NOT count if someone else has already taken it. Below is a calendar image with all the votes up until 10:30am EST on June 12th. If your choice is taken, PICK ANOTHER! (I know that calendar is small, click to enlarge.)

    Edit #2: If your guess has come and gone, you’re allowed to make a new guess. :D

    • 58 comments

    1 George { 05.24.12 at 17:24 }

    I say June 5th, girl.

    Also: I love the tuna/unicorn mashup.

    2 Brandon { 05.24.12 at 17:34 }

    June 30, girl

    3 Lorenia { 05.24.12 at 17:38 }

    George, I really, really, really can’t wait to find out the sex to see which one of us was right this whole time! hahaha Also, when you said the tuna thing, it took me FOREVER to remember that you meant the origin of the “Sorry, Charlie!” phrase!

    Brandon, WHY DO YOU HATE ME? Watch the baby be THAT late now just so it can point and laugh at me with you when it grows up.

    4 Sonia { 05.24.12 at 17:41 }

    A girl – 6.11.12

    5 yolanda { 05.24.12 at 17:44 }

    june 6th, boy

    6 sally nagle { 05.24.12 at 17:49 }

    i guess june 6th and a girl

    7 Abuela Lore { 05.24.12 at 17:56 }

    June 10th, girl

    8 Tia Sammy { 05.24.12 at 17:58 }

    May 31st, boy

    9 San { 05.24.12 at 18:01 }

    The next time we hang out, and a boy that you will name San obviously.

    No but really. Girl. June 3rd.

    10 Lorenia { 05.24.12 at 18:02 }

    hahahaha BUT SAM!!! If it’s born on the 31st, I can’t pick you up at the airport!!!

    11 Fere { 05.24.12 at 18:05 }

    June 19, boy. Really only because I want it to be around then since I’ll be in town :)

    12 Irene { 05.24.12 at 18:06 }

    June 8 – Girl

    13 Sarah Alvaro { 05.24.12 at 18:15 }

    June 7, boy.

    14 Donna Ciesla { 05.24.12 at 18:18 }

    June 17th girl

    15 Lorenia { 05.24.12 at 18:24 }

    Aunt Donna, that’s the date that’s been in my head since we found out I was pregnant! :)

    16 Maysoon { 05.24.12 at 18:29 }

    June 9th Girl, although my mind is telling me Choose BOyyy lol. I will stick with girl. :)

    17 Liz { 05.24.12 at 18:33 }

    6/22/12. Girl.

    18 dbich - Dan B. { 05.24.12 at 18:36 }

    My birthday is June 4th, so let’s go with that.

    June 4th. Boy.

    19 Glou { 05.24.12 at 18:37 }

    June 4th Girl :D

    20 Mia { 05.24.12 at 18:42 }

    Umm… 6/9/12 (cuz it’s a nice progression) and … girl?

    21 David Fekete { 05.24.12 at 18:43 }

    June 2, boy

    22 Lorenia { 05.24.12 at 18:43 }

    Mia, Maysoon beat you to it. She has that date with that sex.

    23 Lacey { 05.24.12 at 18:48 }

    June 3, girl

    24 Lacey { 05.24.12 at 18:49 }

    Shoot! I didn’t post mine early enough! Okay June 3, boy.

    25 Lorenia { 05.24.12 at 18:50 }

    Lacey, this makes me want to chart the votes, because there are a bunch already where more than one person picks the same date AND sex. INTERESTING!

    26 Jess the Lemur { 05.24.12 at 18:52 }

    June 5th Boy…a true little ranga! This is hilarious!

    27 Sarah Herrmann { 05.24.12 at 19:10 }

    Well, since it’s my birthday, I’ll have to guess june 12, girl!

    28 sara { 05.24.12 at 19:15 }

    June 8, boy!! so excited for you :]

    29 Nika { 05.24.12 at 19:24 }

    june 9 and I really have a feeling its a boy!

    30 Mia { 05.24.12 at 21:23 }

    Ack! All my top choices are taken! Ok, June 10, boy. Lol. But I get bragging rights if my first guess is right.

    31 Patrick P { 05.24.12 at 22:03 }

    June 12 boy

    32 Alexa Fe { 05.24.12 at 22:30 }

    June 13, definitely a girl. :)
    I tried to scan previous comments to make sure no one already picked that but I’m mad tired so let me know if I goofed.

    33 Leila { 05.24.12 at 23:29 }

    June 4th girl!!!

    34 Lorenia { 05.24.12 at 23:58 }

    Mia, definitely bragging rights. ;)

    Patrick, my friend Michael made the same guess, but he didn’t follow directions and post it HERE so you get the date/sex combo for that one.

    Leila, already taken, check comments. :P Pick something else.

    35 gringo { 05.25.12 at 03:55 }

    June 23rd, girl.

    36 Jace { 05.25.12 at 03:57 }

    July 2 boy

    37 Jeff Nagle { 05.25.12 at 04:54 }

    I guess June 9th and a boy :)

    38 Jacob { 05.25.12 at 05:04 }

    Nika snaked my choice! I’ll go June 11th, boy.
    And how cool a name is Jacob Hatcher? ;-)

    39 Emily Stanford { 05.25.12 at 06:27 }

    June 13, boy

    40 jaime { 05.25.12 at 09:58 }

    june 7th, and I think it’s a girl!

    I know I sound like a broken record but I am so excited for you guys, eeeeee!

    41 Lorenia { 05.25.12 at 10:08 }

    Jeff, nope. That option is taken. Pick again! ;)

    42 Caroline { 05.25.12 at 11:33 }

    June 17. BOY. because I’m having the first girl! :)

    43 Lorenia { 05.25.12 at 11:53 }

    Caroline, Then you’d better be quick, because we’re not waiting long between kids. ;-)

    44 Megan { 05.27.12 at 13:12 }

    June 16, girl :)

    45 Mama { 05.27.12 at 15:39 }

    June 18•••Boy•••7lb. 14oz.•••21 in.

    46 Fere { 06.01.12 at 04:02 }

    You should make a chart for July in case Baby really likes it in there :) Should I duck and cover now?

    47 Sansanee { 06.01.12 at 15:50 }

    June 15 girl. Because it’s my son birthday & she going to be his g/f. For sure. !!!

    48 Lorenia { 06.01.12 at 17:49 }

    Sansanee, your comment was the cutest. hahaha Made me smile!

    49 Lorenia { 06.04.12 at 23:45 }

    And no need to duck, Fere, there’s no way any doctor would allow me to be pregnant that long, at that point it’s neither safe for baby nor mom, so it would never happen.

    50 Glou { 06.05.12 at 01:41 }

    pues 14 niño :D

    51 Lacey { 06.05.12 at 09:46 }

    June 14 girl since the niño is taken ;)

    52 David Fekete { 06.07.12 at 18:26 }

    June 14. Boy

    53 The Lemur { 06.08.12 at 18:56 }

    Just to make my second guess official, June 15th- Boy :)

    54 Mia { 06.11.12 at 22:40 }

    Ok, new guess is June 17 girl!

    55 Lorenia { 06.12.12 at 10:32 }

    Sorry, David F and Mia, those guesses are taken.

    56 Atoosa { 06.12.12 at 14:43 }

    I am feeling like it has already happening for the past 2 days –are you in labor, Yohe? Maybe just contracting on and off?— but as I did not receive a text or e-mail yet and there are no baby photos on Flickr(though I know that’s usually weeks behind)……..I guess today, but I know it’s already taken for both genders. I can’t find a recent pic of you, so I can’t guess gender based on anything except that you were super sick and craving spinach rather than meat, so that makes me think it’s a girl (that and speedo wearers have more girls ;) )

    So I know I can’t qualify for a prize, but that’s fine – the real prize will be meeting this little Hatchling someday soon.

    Miss you guys!
    Good luck!

    57 Maysoon { 06.12.12 at 22:01 }

    June 13 girl :)

    58 Maysoon { 06.12.12 at 22:03 }

    ps love you guys and Atoosa toooo :)

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