Lanier # 4!!

Yep, you read it right!  What does it mean?  It means we're having another baby!

It's all way too soon to know much.  We calculate that the baby is about 2 weeks "old."  Erika gave me the "proof" on Thursday and I've been waiting for her to want to start telling folks.  We skype'd my parents right away and told them, and I told my pastor on Saturday morning, but Erika wanted to kind of keep it quiet for a while "in case something happens."  We talked about it a few times and started announcing it to the world this morning at our first meeting of the trip.

I hope it's twins--one boy and one girl.  Erika wants a boy.  It's funny--Erika didn't have any morning sickness until Friday, the day after she took the test and showed me the "positive."  It was good timing on her part because if I had heard her hacking and gagging I would have taken her immediately to get a test.  She's got morning sickness pretty bad; twice as bad as with Ashley.  So, it's gotta be twins!  :)

I do want to add that we prayed that our second baby would be exactly two years younger than Ashley, when born.  God saw fit to answer, very specifically and positively.  Again, by our calculations, the baby will be born in the middle/end of May.

SO excited.  We can't wait.  What a great way to start this trip!