The Pencil Test: Better Than An Ultra Sound?

For years my sisters and I have been conducting "The Pencil Test" to predict gender of our future babies. Do you know this one? You take a needle and thread and stick it on the top of an earser and hold it very still above a woman's wrist and it will indicate the gender and order of your children or children-to-be.

The pencil starts to circle and will either move in a vertical motion, parallel to the arm to mean a boy, or will move in a sideways, horizontal motion to mean girl. It circles between each child and then totally stops when it is finished.

It is pretty freaky.
Because it works!!

Over the course of my three decades we have done this practice to many women who are done with their reproductive years. My grandma Helen was subject to our old wives scientific experiments and the pencil test accurately accounted for all 9 of her children in the order of their gender. Same with my mom and other aunts who were willing.

As I hang this week in the Salt Lake Valley to have some celebrations of baby Heff we got wild last night and pulled out the pencil.

We tried it on Tracy, Scott's sister and the pencil said: girl, girl, boy, girl, girl. CHECK!
Karen, Scott's mom: girl, boy, boy. CHECK!
Brooke, Scott's aunt: boy, boy, girl. CHECK!

And then my results...

Aimee: boy, girl, boy*

So even though Scott and I have decided to wait to find out the gender, according to the very scientific and clinically proven method, it looks like there is a penis hanging inside this belly of mine. But for solid evidence I guess we'll just have to wait and see what gender pops out come September.

If anyone is interested in being "pencil tested" I am booking sessions here at the Heffernan Hotel all week. 

*Too bad we are having major trouble with agreeing on boy names and I will have to grieve my daughter having no sisters because sisters really are the best. We will have to adopt lots of girl friends.