Super Bowl Fun Day

With the 2014 season over, Zach and Ginger were now focused on the arrival of the baby. By the end of January, Ginger was now almost seventeen weeks pregnant and was scheduled to have her second ultrasound. The scan would make sure all was well with the baby and they might be able to tell if the baby was a boy or a girl.

Zach and Ginger, however, had a plan for finding out the sex of the baby. They would ask the doctor to write it down and put the paper in an envelope. They would then give the envelope to an employee at a bakery. The bakery would then give them a box of cupcakes that would be frosted either pink or blue, depending on the results. They would pick up the cupcakes two days later, on Super Bowl Sunday, find out for themselves, and would then bring the cupcakes over to Nanny's for a Super Bowl party to tell the family and some of their friends.

January 30, 2015

"Okay, Ginger," said the doctor, once all the questions had been asked, "let's do the ultrasound. Do you want to know the sex, if we can see it?"

"Yes," said Ginger. "But instead of telling us directly, write it down and put it in an envelope. We have a plan to find out."

"No problem," the doctor agreed, turning on the sonogram machine. "That's a good-looking baby."

"Sure is," said Zach. "It looks more like a real baby now, rather than the peanut it looked like almost two months ago."

After they made sure all was well with the baby's growth and development, the doctor told them to turn their backs while she checked the sex of the baby and wrote it down. Once that was done, she handed them the envelope and told them, "Here you are. The baby looks excellent. Growing very well."

"All right," said Ginger, as they left the doctor's office. On their way back, they stopped at the bakery for Zach to drop off the envelope with the sonogram results. Once he came back out, he said, "All set. We can come pick them up Sunday!"

"Can't wait!" said Ginger.

Two days later

Zach woke up on Sunday morning. He and Ginger had a busy day ahead of them. After church, they would go pick up the cupcakes and find out if their baby was a boy or a girl. Then, that evening, they would go over to Nanny's to tell the family and a few friends and watch the Super Bowl.

At church, they didn't pay as much attention as they normally did. They were very eager to pick up the cupcakes.

Once church was over, they quickly drove to the bakery to get the cupcakes. It took all of their willpower not to peek until they got home, but they managed to do it. The second they arrived home, Zach got the box of cupcakes, put them on the counter, and told Ginger, "Are you ready?"

"Yes," said Ginger. "Before we open the box, I just want to make sure of one thing: Will you be happy either way?"

"Of course," said Zach. "And you?"

"Same."

"All right," said Zach, as they walked toward the box, "this is it. One, two, three..."

They opened the box together and it took them a moment to register that the cupcakes were all blue. The baby was a boy.

"All right!" said Zach excitedly.

"We're having a boy!"

Finding out the sex of the baby made it seem more real all of a sudden. They were going to have a son!

That evening, they took the box of cupcakes over to Nanny's for the Super Bowl party. The plan was for them to share what the baby was by putting the cupcakes on a platter and bringing them out to the living room so everyone could see, and then everyone could eat a cupcake.

"All right," said Ginger, as they walked over with Zach carrying the platter, "here you go."

Zach placed the platter down so everyone could see that the cupcakes were blue.

"It's a boy!" Ginger's father said.

"I knew it! Pay up," Nanny told Zach's father, who just laughed and gave her a dollar bill.

"You were making bets on what the baby was?" asked Zach, laughing himself.

Once the game started, everyone spent a lot of time eating and just enjoying themselves. Occasionally, someone would make a remark when a big play was made in the game, but everyone's focus was more on the party.

At the end of the game, Zach was suddenly drawn to the TV after hearing, "And it is intercepted at the goal line, by Malcolm Butler..."

"What was that?" asked Zach. "What kind of play call was that?"

"I don't know," said his father.

"They may have been trying to catch them off-guard," said Ginger.

Once the game was over, it was pretty late, so Zach and Ginger had to go home.

"What a game!" said Zach.

"What a day!" said Ginger.

Right before Zach drifted off to sleep, he kept thinking about the day. He was going to have a son! Finding out the sex of the baby made him even more eager for the birth, and he couldn't wait until July. Only five more months, he thought, and then went off to sleep.