Boys update :)

Tomorrow we have had our baby boy for three months. It's hard to believe how much time flies. He is 12 months now, walking, with four teeth, drinking from a hard-topped sippy cup, and eating all normal food, with no pacifier and virtually no bottle. He is a fairly easy baby, a bit fussy at times, but so fun to be around, with giggles and laughs for all around him.

We have been so blessed by this precious addition to our family. Only about 3 1/2 weeks to go before we find out if he is permanently ours. That day can't come soon enough.

Austin is doing pretty well with him. The boys have started playing together a lot of more in the past few days and enjoying each other. Austin loves to make the baby laugh. He thinks it is great to help mommy with the baby. He is learning gentleness, although that is still honestly a work in progress.

Austin has made incredible achievements in the potty training realm this week. Mommy is so proud of him. He has pretty much mastered going number one. And he has gone number two twice in the last two days, which if you have potty trained, you can image how much of a feat this was for him! He is quite excited with his mastery of this new skill as well!

Austin is learning so much about God! I am so proud of his intuition to ask deep questions and really try to understand the quite grown up concepts of Who God is, where He lives, how He interacts with us in our daily lives, ect. I am also humbled by how much Austin watches in my life and wants to learn because of how my husband and I live and talk about our God to him.

Someone asked me today if I knew what parenting was like before I started this journey, would I have done it. She felt that most people would not. However, while it is quite a ride, one that you cannot foresee most thing in it, I would not for one second give it up or not have done it. I can only be grateful that I am a privileged woman whom God has seen fit to allow to be blessed with children. Not all have this responsibility. And while there are days where it is very difficult, the small joys of every day are there and the rewards are much greater to me than the pressure that parenting brings!