4 boys, Oh Boy!

I was once told when a friend/relative of mine (DesmaLee) was pregnant with her second child that she was hoping for another girl. I was kinda surprised since they were done having kids after that one and I thought she would want to have one of each. Little did I know that when pregnant with Luke, I was very much hoping for another boy. I had told myself, based on dreams and just intuition that Jack was a girl until the ultrasound. I was bummed for about 5 min. when I found that out and then I was excited. However with Luke, I was SO excited. I can tell you that if all I ever had was boys, I would be just fine with that.
Although, I have a friend named Candi who has a daughter Bailee. Miss Bailee LOVES Joe (can't say that I blame her). She loves him so that she will refuse to let me hold her and will put her arms out for Joe. Seeing him with her when we watched her once made me want to have a girl for Joe's sake. Joe has also stated that he'd like a girl. I can just see her wrapping him around her finger. Oddly enough, Bailee's momma Candi, has told us that Luke is what she envisioned our daughter would look like. Big Blue eyes and dark hair. Not that I mind that statement. Luke is (in my humble opinion) pretty gosh darn beautiful.

Anyway, today Jenny called me sounding in need of help. She needed to take Lucy and get some tests done and needed a last minute sitter for William. I told her to bring him on over because Jack already had my nephew Joey over and was playing with him. About a half hour later I had 4 boys all under 5. I can tell you that I was pretty excited to take this challenge on. I thought I would be nervous but more or less I felt like it would not really change the status quo because the 3 big boys would play and Luke would watch and giggle. I was right. At one point I was running (yes running) around chasing the 3 older ones and tickling them and Luke was letting out BIG belly laughs.

I can tell you quite proudly that at one point for around 30 min I had ALL 4 sleeping. Sheer Miracle there. Now 3 are down and Joey is up watching a show. He's a little old for the nap factor. (according to him)

I hear Luker moving too so I will just add a quick photo or two be moving along. While all that matters to me regarding my current and future kids is that they are healthy, if it were 4 boys, I would surely be saying OH BOY!

~AC