Hear Ye, Hear Ye! God Blesses Again!

Now that our parents have been told, we are pleased to announce publicly that we are expecting another baby!


**Note: We had to make our own Big Brother onesie with iron-on letters because we couldn't find any at hospital gift shops in sizes smaller than 2T!

I am pregnant and think I am due in late December, but won't have an estimated due date until I have a dating ultrasound in early May. John will narrowly miss having a true Irish twin by a couple of weeks! (However, I still count myself a member of the Mamas of Irish Twins club because John was born three weeks early so gestationally these kids are Irish twins.)

Of course, there are biological reasons explaining my being pregnant so soon after John was born--blah, blah, blah--but here are the Top 5 Reasons I Think I Am Pregnant:

1. Recently I had purchased a bunch of post-maternity clothing.


2. Only a few weeks earlier, I finally felt like I wasn't drowning daily and began getting dinner on the table most nights. Housecleaning is still rarely being accomplished.


3. God was listening on March 18 when I commented on my friend Sarah's blog, "I can hardly wait until John has a sibling to be cute with!"


4. The Feast of the Annunciation--fittingly enough--occurred, which is almost exactly when I conceived last year and this year.


5. God wants to show His glory by using me--a very weak and faulty vessel--to do something I don't feel strong enough to do.

Now it is my privilege to brag about both of our kids! While John has been learning to be more social, the physical movements required for crawling, how to coordinate his two hands, John's tiny sibling:

• Is already a boy or girl.


• Has a heart which has been beating since five weeks' gestational age (around day 21) and is now pumping blood.


• Has arm and leg buds, lungs, a brain, a nervous system, eye lenses, and a functioning pancreas.

I think I'm probably six weeks' pregnant, so the little one is 1/17th of an inch long!