- Our first guest is a mom of six boys
who recently found out that she's pregnant
with her seventh child, and here's how she learned
she's finally having a girl.
- Okay. All right. Okay.
- Is it gonna squirt out? - It's gonna be broken.
I can't--shoot. How do I get in?
- Just cut the piece. - Okay, hold on.
You lift it up, baby.
[screaming]
Oh, my God! Oh, my God.
From Apex, North Carolina,
please welcome Cher Lair and her husband, Stephen.
- Hi, Cher. - Hello there.
- Cher Lair.
- That's his fault. - Yes, I--
- She married into that. - I know, Cher Lair.
- What a great name that is. - Yeah. It's memorable.
- That turns out to-- - Love it or hate it.
- To work out, Cher Lair. Okay, so you have six boys.
How old are they?
- The big boy is 13 tomorrow. - Uh-huh.
- Jackson, the baby is two on Saturday.
- Wow. - So, 11 year spread.
- So did you start out, like, when you got together,
you said, "Oh, I want to have a big family?"
- Not--not exactly. Not necessarily.
We--I'm one of two, he's one of two.
Our parents are both one of two.
They think we're insane.
- So we kinda thought three. - That's pretty much
the recurring theme, is everyone thinks we're insane.
- It's a lot--a lot to take care of, yeah.
- It's a lot of people. So we thought three.
Three sons. And then at three, we thought,
"Oh, we're not done. Maybe four."
Or maybe--at four, we thought, "Well, that doesn't seem--
let's go--let's go again."
- So we just--
- And we look at it now and we can't imagine
what life would be like if we stopped at three.
- What point did you think, well, like,
at the second one, did you think it'd be nice to have a girl?
- Yeah. - The third one, you're, like,
it would be nice to have a girl.
- Sure, yeah. - Fourth one, it'd be nice
to have a girl.
- Pretty much that. - Okay, so you found out,
and this cake thing, I just learned about it today.
I didn't-- it's a gender reveal.
Tell people how it happened.
- Yes, so it's just-- it's a party
where you find out in front of everyone you know and love--
- Right, but how do people have it in the cake?
- So the cake, you know, you tell someone,
so someone has a sealed envelope with boy or girl written in it.
Our friend Stacey did it.
She ran off, made a cake.
So only she knew, so everyone's there.
We cut into the cake, and it's either pink or blue.
Some people do balloons. You open a box
and balloons come flying out.
So we knew it was gonna be either blue...
- Uh-huh. - Or pink for a girl.
We were thinking obviously blue, duh.
- She'd been practicing her blue cake face
for about three days.
- She just knew. - You had just given up.
You just thought it was gonna be a boy.
- We thought it's a boy. and we love boys.
We're crazy about boys.
We're the boy family.
Happy to be the boy family, but I had a-
I had a longing for that thing.
- Sure. - I'm close with my mom.
She's close with hers. You and your mom.
It's a thing. It's a mom/daughter thing that
I've wondered about. I wanted to know it.
I've wanted to experience it, and so
we've done the mother/son thing.
- Uh-huh. - Love it. Crazy about it.
- Over and over again. - Yeah.
- Over. - Uh-huh. Got it down.
- Gotta just wonder what else is out there.
- Right. - And so we, yeah.
Unabashedly, yeah, we would have liked a girl at some point.
- So you must have all these hand-me-downs,
and they're all boy hand-me-downs, so...
- It's out of control. We have, you know,
in the attic three to six winter, three to six summer,
six to nine winter, six to nine summer,
three to six shoes, six to nine shoes,
three to six flip-flops, six to nine winter boots, I mean...
- Wow. - Yeah, if you go to our attic,
it's sort of like the Smithsonian of hand-me-downs,
and what Cher didn't realize that I knew for the longest time
was that behind the bins that are stacked six high,
there's one little bin that she's been collecting
little girl things in over the years.
And each time she gets pregnant, she'll buy one little thing
hoping that maybe this will be the one.
- It's true. - After the sixth boy,
- she finally gave that away... - I gave it away.
- And donated it. - I gave it away.
- Oh, no. - I did.
- We're starting from ground zero.
We don't have anything pink and we're excited
about polka dots and all the things that are coming.
- That's okay. - The reason you're here
is your reaction was so fantastic,
and we got you a cake
because I want to see a reaction from you.
- Okay, okay, okay. - All right.
So put it--we'll put it on here.
- Oh. Can I eat it?
- Delicious. - All right.
It is, and I'm gonna lift it up,
and it says you're coming to our Mother's Day show.
- What? No!
- Thousands of dollars of everything a new mom...
- No! - Oh, wow.