Some Great News!

Just in case I don't get the chance to post again this year, I figure I'll close on a high note.

 

On December 6th, we found out that Lisa is pregnant with our fourth child!

 

She took a test that morning and came up with the faintest of faint lines on the stick; she knew right away, and so did I, but to comply with a long standing tradition of my refusing to acknowledge pregnancy easily, I bought another test.

 

Same result of course.

 

From the math, my mention on this blog of a time on the ship when we dumped the kids in daycare and returned to the room for [cough] was The One that Did the Trick.

 

Which means it's the first conception we can pinpoint, which itself is very neat.

 

Almost as cool: the due date is August 16th, otherwise known as Grandpa's Day, a day I've celebrated each of the last 23 years.

 

Not that kids are ever born on their due date, but still . .

 

Long story short: by this time next year we'll be a family of six!