Primary

I'm never quite sure what my kid has said when other teachers come out of the Primary room giggling...

Teacher: What's your favorite Primary song?

Garrett: Radioactive

Me: {:/

Teacher: Lynneah, where do you sleep?

Lynneah: IN TRASH CANS!
Later at home...

Me: Lynneah, where do you sleep?

Lynneah: IN THE VAN! 

Ummmm, apparently we're homeless and sleeping in trash cans and the van?

All those hours and hours of speech, special, tuition based, language focused pre-school, and work at home to teach her how to organize and retrieve her vocabulary and learn to talk has definitely paid off...or somethin'.

Sweet Little Monster

That Lincoln of ours is trouble...lots of funny, naughty, sneaky, scary trouble. I'll have to go work in a high school someday so I can know what the kids that age are up to and try to keep that Lincoln out of it. He's a little sponge and just picks things up that we've never directly taught...very new experience for us. His earned term of endearment is "Devil Child". He's always thinking and planning...

We've got several dear friends having such heartbreaking times right now and have added them in our prayers. We gave a short little explaination to the kids about what they were struggling with then suggested a few ideas that they might want to bless them with. From there it's up to the kids. These kids have been very faithful in remembering all of our friends and their families and their doctors in each prayer offered. It does my heart good to hear them care so much for the people in our lives.

Tonight Lincoln offered the prayer. He remembered everyone we've been praying for and specifically requested strength, comfort, guidance, etc depending of who he was talking about. 

Then he said,"Please bless our baby to be born ok, and not get any infections, and not die." :'{

Obviously some very very sad things have/continue to happen with several of our dear friends.

I always wonder if I should keep it quiet and protect them or allow them the opportunity to learn to pray for others. After tonight I still wonder, but was deeply touched that he cares so much about all the people that have touched our lives over the years, and able to then turn concern to his own immediate family.

When he's not getting into trouble he's such a deep thinking, concerned, caring little boy.

Semi-related, Gabriel has also been so faithful in remembering those we love in his prayers. He asks for updates before praying so he can make sure to "ask for the right kind of blessings for them".

He also always expresses gratitude that a new baby is coming to our family. I'm so happy to hear that from him, not every 9 year old boy would feel that way. He has such a good heart.

Little Garrett who spends most of his time in his own little world has even been consistently faithful in remembering those that need help. Thinking beyond is own immediate needs is huge and makes me so happy to see.

The Grand Finale

While debating if there really was just one more...one more came. This is it; so I wanted to do something fun to tell the kids what the finale would be. Stephen came up with the great idea to take them out to dessert and work with the restaurant to color it. Chili's was great and completely willing to help us surprise them.

Most of the them thought it was a girl, but WANTED a boy. It would be so much fun to end with using all those cute girly things we waited so many years to get, but I had a very clear impression there was one more boy right after Lincoln was born (it's nagged at me over all the years)...then those cute girls came and threw us for a loop...this is him.

We told them to watch for the dessert...

Blue was a boy...Pink was a girl.

It arrived!!

Garrett was SUPER excited! 

! B L U E !

! Y A H O O ! 

 They're all excited (well, the ones old enough to know what's going on) which is so heart warming. We asked what they thought about it and Gabriel said, "I just wanted another kid." Lincoln said, "Stinky! Because he's going to have to share my room and he'll drool and put all my stuff in his mouth." He will share his room...and probably right on the drooling part too. ;-D Garrett just really wanted another boy. Lynneah is just confused, she's asked if he'll get cut out, and can't figure out where his is. Just this week the lump (bumps are only on number 1 or 2...3 if you're lucky, beyond that it's full on lump)  has definitely become obvious so she'll figure it out soon...maybe. Kenzie's such a little Mama, but also the baby of the family *BIG TIME* and used to exclusive rights to Mommy for a couple hours a day. Poor girl's in for a really rude awakening.

So far everything looks good, and has come back ok, despite my official "advanced maternal age". However, Lynneah and a couple of her brothers did a pretty good job of teaching us that those pre-birth screenings are a nice thought, but don't mean much after they arrive.

Due on Gabriel's birthday.

Had lots of cute girl names...nothin' in the boy realm.