Andy & Jessica

I asked Levi if he would get my cell phone that was in the office (i.e., Andy’s room piled high with junk).  He indicated that he wasn’t able to saying, “My Dad said I can’t touch anything but carpet in there.”

Jude: “My mom’s expecting!”

Jude talking for his future audience: “A boy or girl?”

Jude: “A phone call.”

“Is it illegal to kiss before you marry?”

Asher: “I want to kiss your whole entire lip.”

Me: Bust out laughing.

Asher: “Is that my quote of the day?”

I’m almost 17 weeks along today and I’m now feeling great.  I just got back from an OB appointment and got to hear my little girl’s heartbeat.  I’m ready for her to start kicking anytime now.  I don’t care if she jabs my ribs to the point where it hurts or wakes me up at night.  I’m ready for that daily reassurance that all is well.  But, for now, I’m super happy just knowing she’s still alive.  Still seems too good to be true.

“If you want a baby, all you have to do is pray to God.”

“For Asher’s birthday, can we get me, Jude and Asher fishing poles?”

To me: “Is it okay to call the baby a baby?”

Me: “Yes.”

Chorus of 3 boys patting my tummy: “Baby, you are a baby; you are a baby; you are a baby… .”

“Mommy, Levi’s being a teenager!”  (Teenagers have a bad reputation in the minds of our boys since they witnessed a pack of piggy teenage girls take all the candy except for one piece of Laffy Taffy in a bucket left outside of a home on the honor system last Halloween.)

“So, when I have kids, you’ll be considered a grandma?”  I then asked him how many kids he was going to have and he said, “I think 19.”