When the ultrasound screen showed I was carrying a boy, I set aside my dress-up dreams. (Not that I can tell if Lucien will one day declare to the world that he’s a transvestite.) I find myself suppressing sighs when I walk around the kids’ section at SM. Three-fourths of the floor is all girly …

Ladies and gentlemen, we have liftoff.Lucien now insists on keeping his big head up, all the time. He also does not like to be held like a baby. He wants to be propped up, his butt planted firmly on my arm, so he can swivel his head around and take in the world. Or at …