I'm not ready!

I know I need to prepare myself because no matter what time will tick on and, thus, my children will grow older but I REALLY wish I could freeze time. They are all so cute right now. Today I asked Lucy how she got so beautiful and she responded, "Because Jesus kissed me." Awww...


I've been feeling nostalgic lately because I have been thinking a lot about that moment where your baby is born and you get to see him/her for the first time and hear that newborn cry. Then you get to kiss the baby and hold the baby (in my case that took about 30-45minutes-but you get the point). I really am sad I will never experience that moment again. It's a funny sort of irony to me that when I didn't know I shouldn't have more children, I wanted to take the ability away from myself by getting my tubes tied. And now that I wasn't able to get my tubes tied and it is possible for me to get pregnant, I can't. I told Rich today that he is lucky that it would be dangerous for me to get pregnant because otherwise I would try to talk him in to having more a few years down the road.


Another reason for the nostalgia is Dexter grew up today. Right before my very eyes and I'm the one that did it! There was a significant amount of pressure from Rich though. That is right; Dexter's luscious locks are gone. As I sat down to cut his hair Rich asked him if he wanted short hair like Daddy and he said, "Yes!" So the buzzer came out and the hair came off.

Afterwards, Rich spiked his hair some and Dexter said, "I feel COOL!" I have to admit- he does look superb!

And for those of you keeping count; Hazel popped a 3rd tooth this week! She was a trooper! We'll post pictures of the 3 toother soon.