And BABY makes.....

Luke, Liam and Aiden are excited to annouce they will be BIG BROTHERS....BABY #4 is anticipated to arrive mid August, 2013.    Needless to say, the boys are WAY excited about the news!

Opening the baby presents we had for them to tell them about the baby.  Funny story....of the three bottles (pictured above) the boys managed to "hide" one in less then 5 minutes.  Oh a sign of our times and we sure hope Baby #4 has a lot of patience.

Praticing feeding the Baby

That looks a little better.


And BABY makes...FOUR!  Yes, you read that correctly.  We are very excited to announce that we are expecting Baby #4 in mid August.  The reactions from the boys were all priceless.  Luke was, by far, the most excited about the idea and had lots and lots of great questions.  He was a little upset that the baby will not be here tomorrow.  The boys do understand the concept of seasons pretty well so we explained that the baby will not be here until the end of the summer right before Luke and Liam start kindergarten.  Luke hasn't stopped asking questions like, "do you think the baby can hear me talking or is he/she sleeping right now?"  Or, when the baby comes out, he will cry a lot, but I will hold him like this because babies like that."

To tell the boys about the baby, we gave each of the boys three small random baby items wrapped as presents.  Each of them unwrapped the presents with a somewhat puzzled looks as to why they were getting a swaddle blanket, pacifier, baby bottles, etc.  Luke even suggested we give them to our friend Kirsten who has a baby (Andy).  Aiden thought it would be fun to play with all of them and Liam really wasn't sure what the gifts were about.  Luke finally put the pieces together and figured out that  mommy has a baby in her belly! 

I am nearing the end of the first trimester and things are progressing well.  I had one doctor's appointment to confirm the due date and the fact that there is "just" one baby.  I am feeling fairly good, though I have had a lot more nausea and weird aversions to various foods with this pregnancy.  

We are so thankful and blessed to have this gift and we look forward to sharing the next chapter of our lives with family and friends. Oh the fun we will have and stories to tell....