Superman or My Little Pony?

So now that we've revealed that we're having a kid, we now go into a waiting mode where we anxiously await the next ultrasound so that we can know the gender of our baby.  Over the next few months, Barbara and I go through names for either gender and I swear we went through a million variations.

The main criteria:
1.  Is it a name that our parents can pronounce?  Immigrant Koreans have a hard time with certain names - mainly anything with a lot of "L's" - For instance, one name that Barbara liked was Liam, but it got nixed because Koreans tend to turn L's into R's and it would've sounded like "Ree-am."

2.  The name could not be associated with someone that has annoyed/wronged Barbara in her life.  What I came to find out is that Barbara didn't necessarily have a lot of enemies, but just a lot of people that she flat out didn't like.

Our top choices ended up being Connor for a boy and we didn't necessarily come up with a top girl name, but we'd probably choose some variation of Eva, Ava, or if Barbara twisted my arm enough, Olive or Olivia.  I don't think there was any specific significance to any of the names other then we liked it and it met the criteria above.

So as we go into the ultra sound, we're now safely past the 1st trimester and Barbara is starting to a show a little bit.  You can see this little baby bump and it was amazing to see that growth.  We were warned beforehand that the technician, Kevin, was a little bit of a kook and he turned out to be exactly as described.  He was this lively Japanese fellow who made a lot of corny jokes, but he meant well and we actually enjoyed his humor.  As he's progressing through the various parts, we can now see the body of our baby (not just a little tadpole/egg) and you can see the head.  We both tear up a bit because it's so amazing to see what we had created and how it's grown in a few short months.  Kevin then says "I know what you're having....do you wanna know?  20 bucks!" jokingly.  After a while we progresses through and shows a picture that he describes as the bottom of the kid.  In so many words, he says there's his butt and what do you think that is...which essentially was the penis and that we were having a boy!

We would've been excited no matter the outcome, but we both knew our families would be rather proud/happy that we were having a boy.  In traditional Asian cultures, men are seen as the ones that can carry the blood line, provide for the family, etc.  In my family that is definitely more important, where as Barbara's family was a little more split.  Some were more traditional and wanted a boy, but she had some that were hoping for a girl.  They have a little more of a soft spot for them over there.

So we had a reveal party for our friends and it was graciously hosted by your Auntie Kim and Uncle Zach.  Barbara ended up stuffing a piñata with mints that were wrapped in blue and pink and then added some random candy in between.  The idea was to have the girls count how many blues (boy) and pink (girl) and whatever had the most would end up being the reveal of gender.  The game turned out so differently....Nhu-y ended up breaking open the piñata and the candy flew.  The girls immediately looked at the candy and were perplexed.  We had to explain that there was some math involved, but it was also funny because Nhu-y was confused on what the random candy meant.  She brought us some smarties/double bubbles and asked "what does this mean?"  After it was all said and done, they figured out it was a boy and they were all excited for us.  We ended up watching the DVD of the ultrasound afterwards and just talking about the possibilities of what it'll be like to have our little boy to join the group of friends.