Precious Baby

Last week Asher was {violently} rocking Isabel's baby and I snapped the BIGGEST smile. This little boy is so precious and we are all wondering how he'll do with a new baby in the house. We've never, PRAISE GOD, had any major behavior issues when we've added a new little one to our family...but we've also never had a baby on the throne this long. He's reigned the longest, for our family, by the time of the due date - a whopping 2 years and 7 months, so we'll see how that affects him.
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I remember when we were expecting Adam and a lady from church told me that adding another will certainly "grow him up quickly" (referring to Drew) --uh uh, not what I wanted to hear AT ALL. I thought about that a long time, and from that moment on I vowed that we'd take extra care in making sure that didn't really happen. Each time we add to our family, we think of the little ones as still being little and try not to make unreasonable demands on them - the Daddy of the house is super great at helping out with this too. Though we're not perfect in all we attempt, we try to check in and take all the necessary time and energy to love on each of them as their world changes, knowing that it's changing just as much as ours!
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We'd love, love your prayers as we prepare to go from a family of eight to a family of nine. Never would have dreamed it, but seriously feels like a dream. We are all very excited. And I think I've mentioned this before, but having older kiddos this time around has really added a fun dimension that I never would have guessed. They love going with me to the appointments, feeling all the kicks, rubbing my belly, and visiting about how life is going to be so different. Their protectiveness of me is so very precious - no mom can't play kickball, or push shopping carts, or even walk by the lady cleaning out the bird cage at the nursing home for fear that I might smell the chemicals. Oh I pray they're this chivalrous as they grow older, I don't ever want to forget.