It's a......

Summer '11

It was during our July vacation at Tahoe when the panic set it.

Ooopsey.....

I looked at my chubby infant and thought....no way. No flipping way. I just had a baby. Like literally, this latest babe emerged from my innards yesterday...i swear!...oh shizniz...

I basically ruined the relaxation of the rest of the trip by coaxing Tyler to return back to the store for one more test. I know it's early so let's keep on checking. I really think I might be pregnant.

There is no way, he'd say. You're acting too crazy lately...I'm betting the old P is going to show up within the hour.

The not-knowing was the most torturous. I can handle anything, as long as I just know.

Then it came to me as I was sitting on the beach. A name.

A boy's name. 

It was lovely and hearty and exactly what I could envision for my son.

My son....?!!!!

I looked over at Tyler and said, 

"Ya know, I think I could actually be really okay with this. I could be genuinely, immediately stoked. You realize this could be our boy? I want to name him {insert awesome name}. What do you think?

He sat looking out at the water under the blanket of warm sunshine and smiled, I like it.

Instantly, visions of vintage Davy Crockett posters adorning a boy's bedroom flashed through my mind. The Boy Scout motto. Little boy hair cuts and ballgames...all of it. This could be just perfect. Regardless of the {entirely too close} proximity of my last pregnancy, and the fact that I despise most courses of action in which my hands haven't been directly and consciously molding/shaping/obsessively planning....this is just dandy. We've always wanted four. Better now than later! And if we get our boy, wham bam thank you ma'am: kitchen closed. This uterus has had it! We're done!

It all made so much sense, lying there on the beach.

So.....

You 

Can

Imagine

my

complete

and

utterly

humbling

surprise

the 

day

we

found 

out

we're

having

.

.

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.

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.

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Another GIRL!!!!!

{More thoughts to come...but believe me when i say...as ironic as it may seem....we couldn't be happier. 

Life is so good. And funny.}