soon to be four...

so, here is our missing father's day portrait. remember how i said i made beards for all of us, but then only posted a picture of josh & heron? okay, maybe no one besides greg christman noticed this. but anyway, here's why:

look very closely.
(click on photo to enlarge, if needed)

look in the vicinity of josh's left hand. yes, i made four beards that day, and in this portrait you can see the fourth beard around my belly.

we're having another baby!

father's day was a little early for us to tell everyone (we'd only known for a week by then). but now it is time. we know very little about the littlest garrels, but we can't wait to meet mini-G! he or she is somewhere in the range of 11 to 15 weeks old right now, making the due date february 1st (or january 1st). we will have a better idea on july 21, when i have my first ultrasound.

i am already showing, and have been for awhile. either i started showing quickly because this is my 2nd baby, soon after the first, or i'm further along than we thought, or we're having twins (no, twins don't run in either family, but people keep telling us it's still possible, which honestly scares us a little bit right now).

watching heron play with other kids this past week, and being around families with several children, made me especially excited about our growing family. we were a little suprised by this guy, but we welcome this child into our family with open arms!