The joys and pains....

I went to the Dr. the other day for one of my monthly check-ups and all of a sudden it hit me...."Oh my goodness, we are going to have another child!" You would think that would be an obvious thing as I have been pregnant for some time now and I can feel this little one moving around inside my belly everyday, but the realness of it hadn't set in like the other day. Wow! What will he be like? What will he look like? Will he be a good baby? How are his brothers going to respond?
Parenting is such a strange thing, ya know? It is so much more work then I ever imagined, but at the same time it is so rewarding. Caleb and Judah are such different personalities that I wonder what this next one will be like, and right now, while I cant imagine what life will be like with him, in a year I will never be able to imagine what life would be like without him.

These days Caleb is the ever present 3 year old with a will as strong as steel. Oh my goodness.....from the time the boy wakes up until the time he falls to sleep he wants HIS WAY! It has been quite the challenge. He is a fun boy though and tonight he was being very cute with his brother. We went for dinner at Fuddruckers (can you hear the angels singing?) But what was even better then that for the boys is that upstairs they have this playground like they would have at a fast food restaurant at home, and the boys got to play in it. Caleb was being so cute helping Judah climb up in it and go down the slide. It was very endearing! And Judah was even cuter because he kept coming out and waving to Mike and I and blowing us kiss after kiss and saying, "Ouw you!" (which translates to I love you!) He would keep saying it and looking our way while walking the other direction toward the playground only to miss his entrance because he was so focused on blowing us kisses. He is definitely our cutie!

Even as I am writing this blog, the boys are in their beds to go to sleep. Judah just makes himself comfortable and is down for the night, while Caleb comes out of his room numerous times with any reason he can think of to stall. Tonight he doesnt like the pants that I put him in, so he wants different ones. You really can't win with this boy sometimes.....ugh....but if I left him as he would want, he would be in there taking off his diaper, then would pee in his bed and sometime during the night come and get in bed with us and then pee in ours. So, the pants stay on! Oh the joys.....