Boy/Girl

We visited the big box store tonight. Among many other things, we bought a present for a birthday party for this weekend. One of Abbie's daycare classmates is having a party and inviting the whole class without realizing that we'll descend en masse with three small children.

When we started looking at toys, we realized that we couldn't remember if the party was for a boy or a girl. I thought we needed a boy toy, mommy thought we needed a girl toy. We settled on a nice unisex sidewalk chalk toy and moved on to other things, such as dragging our three small children out of the toy aisles.

Later we checked the invitation. The party was for Reese.

"I was right," mommy said, "it's for a girl."

"I thought Reese was a boy's name," I said.

"No, it's a girl's name" said mommy. "Wait. Abbie, is your friend Reese a girl or boy?"

"Girl," Abbie said.

I'm sure other parents will have similar debates in the future when we invite their children to Tory's birthday parties.

For the record, Reese is a girl's name. Reece is a boy's name. So I was kind of right. The boy version was more popular until a few years ago when the boy version lost popularity and the girl version became much more popular. Thank you Reese Witherspoon.