newsFLASH: we've been holding out on you

Remember when we told you why we hadn't been around?

Well, that wasn't entirely the truth.  I mean, all that was true, but we left out something pretty darn important.

This is the project that's been taking up most of our my our energy of late:

A fourth!  We're having a fourth sweet baby!

Friends, we're excited to announce that Flash Gordon Golby will be joining our family sometime late October.  (Officially, his due date is the 27th.  Not that the due date matters all that much.  Babies seem to have a way of making up their own minds about stuff like that.)

Things you might be wondering:

::  Yes, we know he's a boy.  We're thrilled about a playmate for Indy, and about how Flash will sort of "even up the odds" around here.  Neither of us have ever cared much whether the baby's a boy or a girl, but after this weekend, where Indy was surrounded by two sisters and two little girl cousins, Jim observed that Indy could really use an ally.   And, lucky boy, he gets one!

::  No, we didn't just find out about him!  Even though we're just now sharing our news with you, we've known for quite some time. In fact, it was the week of Jim's promotion that I started feeling really lousy.  The kids had all been sick, and I thought I had the same virus.  I kept saying to Jim, "Wow!  I guess I haven't really been sick in a long time, because I'd forgotten how miserable it feels.  You know what it feels like?  It feels like being pregnant!"  Famous. Last. Words.  I took a test the following Monday, after my words had begun to feel oddly prophetic.  I had planned to come up with some fun way to announce the pregnancy to Jim, but abandoned that in favor of a hasty, "WAIT!  I have to talk to you about, um, something!" to stop him from registering me from the half marathon we'd been planning to run in July. (He's still in.  Me, not so much.)

::  No, we won't really name him Flash.  (Kathleen's current proposal is Flash Groovy Tomato, in honor of her love for her Groovy Girl doll from her best friend.  We're not naming him that, either.)  I do think, though, that we'll probably wind up calling him Flash, just like John David will always be Indy.  I also think that, as usual, name negotiations will continue right up until he enters the world.

::  Yes, we're probably a little crazy.  But really, really blessed.