"Do you know what you're having yet?" Orchid asked Mom as we ate our dinner. "Because I'm all for another girl."

"No way," Alan said. "I don't want another sister. I already have two, I don't want three."

"Yeah? Well, I only have one sister and I have three brothers," Orchid said. "I don't want four brothers and one sister."

Mom sighed. "No, we don't know what I'm having yet. We might find out in four weeks at my next ultrasound. It depends if the baby will let us see."

I added everything up in my head. Normally, Mom went for her second ultrasound at sixteen weeks, meaning right now,...