On Patterns

I really like finding random little patterns in the world around me. I especially like finding patterns that relate to having kids - it's kind of the topic I'm obsessed with these days. Here are some of the patterns in our family:

First of all, for a little background, Matt and I each have 2 brothers and 2 sisters. That's important. In Matt's case, all the siblings are married with children - he's the youngest by far. In my case, all but one brother are married with children - I'm the second to youngest. We all got married and had kids in order in our family.

First there are the 1st child patterns -

Matt's side:
The girls had boys first. The boys had girls first.

My side:
The oldest (Laurel) had a boy first.
My next sister (Salli) had a girl first.
Then comes my brother (Andy). He had a boy first.
We had a girl first.

See the patterns?

Now the second children patterns -
There are 4 permutations (to use the mathy word) of possible genders with two kids. You can have
1 - a boy then a girl
2 - a girl then a boy
3 - two boys
4 - two girls.

With me so far?
In Matt's family all of them are covered:
Robin - #3
Susan - #1
Brent - #4
Lance - #2

My family:
Laurel - #1
Salli - #2
Andy - #3
Us - ????

So to fit the pattern and cover all the permutations, we would need to have another girl next. The funny thing is, you could count the permutation of two girls at the first as already being covered. That's what my parents and Matt's parents had.

So we want to have a girl for pattern's sake. But we also really like the idea of having a boy. Matt keeps daydreaming about bringing sons to Priesthood Session of Conference which he'll have to wait 12 years for AFTER we have our first son. So he wants to get that show on the road. Besides that, we just both think it would be really fun to have a boy. So we will really be happy to have either. (The other pros of having another girl are - we love having a girl so we would enjoy another and that we have girl stuff already.)

Now do I sound nerdy?