Here we go again!

Well, if you haven't heard our big news (or if you haven't pieced it together with all the new car talk), here it is: we are having another baby! May 13th is the date, and we are so excited!

Let me go ahead and answer your questions for you and save you some trouble: YES - they will be a year and a half apart. NO - it wasn't a surprise. YES - we are staying in this house for now (we might be crazy for that). NO - we won't find out what it is, though Bob has started to waver in the past week. YES - we might be crazy for having them this close together, but we are both close in age to our siblings and have loved having it that way. NO - I haven't been too sick, just super tired (same as with Erin; I am very lucky that way...until the heartburn sets in!).

In related news, we have decided that it is best for us for me to stop working as a nurse...effective November 13th (next Friday!!!) and stay home with the kids. I plan to go back to work in 2-3 years, while keeping my license current in the meantime. I did look into working "as needed", but my unit doesn't need help on weekends, and I wasn't too excited about working weeknights and taking care of Erin + sibling during the day. Plus, I'd have to keep current with all the classes/meetings, and that would be difficult with no daytime childcare. A large portion of my check was going to daycare, and daycare was really rough on all of us...a LOT worse than we thought it would be. I figure we gave it a 9-month shot. We have debated this over and over and looked at lots of options for the past, oh, 9 months, and have lots and lots of reasons to go ahead with this now - since we are up here by ourselves, we figure why make things harder than they need to be?

So, that's the latest from us. We are very excited about everything, and are already nervous about trying to handle 2 kids!