oh, baby!

On May 20th, I was blessed with a beautiful, healthy baby boy that we named John Stephen.  I always find it so amazing how fast you can love another human being.  I also can not believe how much easier it is this time around.

Like my daughters, baby John is a really good baby.  He eats well and sleeps well.  Because my mobility is so much better than it was when my girls were born, I find true enjoyment feeding this little guy at 3am.  My legs can walk me to the kitchen to make his bottle and my hands allow me to easily change his dirty diapers.  It was so challenging taking care of the girls.  I could do it all, but it would take me so much longer to snap up there sleepers and fasten their diapers.  I may have three children now, but today was the first day that I ever gave an infant a bath.  Steve always took care of that for me in the past.  Even though John cried the whole time, I loved EVERY second of it and can't imagine ever forgetting that I did it on my own. 

My life is very busy taking care of two girls (ages 10 and 8) and my one week old son, but I can honestly say that I have never been this happy.  I have everything I could ever want: a great husband, three healthy kids and a safe place we can call home.  I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else in the world and thank God for all the wonderful gifts He has given me.

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