It's official.

A select few have known our secret for a few weeks, including our oldest daughter. She has been driving us nuts since March asking when/if the next baby will come. So we had to tell her. I am 13 weeks along and Lord willing we will have a little bundle by the end of March. My due date, by the book, is March 7...but my midwife bumped it back to March 21 since I have been consistently two weeks late.

Gracie and this little one will be 20 months part, my closest yet. No complaining here, that is great spacing! I haven't been sick, other than being tired and coffee disgusts me. For the first time we are not worried about our vehicle not fitting us! We have 7 seats to fill yet! Yeah!

After family devotions last night Daddy was praying for those with request in our church and at the end of the prayer asked for the Lord to watch over the new baby he has placed in mommy's tummy and keep it safe and mommy safe and healthy. I heard two little gasps and as soon as Daddy closed Jessie slapped her forehead and sighed "Finally! I can talk about it!!" The other kids got up and starting jumping around. Micah asked me"You gotta baby in yer tummy mamma?" I said "yup!" He said"Oh good, it will come out some day and cry"...Yup, your learning little man.

I really feel like the more I have, the more excited I become and we cherish each pregnancy more than the last. In a world of much barrenness we have no more right to have children than all the couples out there who can't, so it is nothing to be proud of. But we can be thrilled at the gift he has seen fit to give us. Humbly thrilled. The Lord Himself choose to give us another human soul that will either spend eternity in heaven or in hell. That is just huge to me.