Bye Bit, have a good day...

Every morning at our house is chaos! Well, on school days that is. I get Brit up while trying to finish up myself, then get Aidan. Aidan is sure to wake up NOT wanting to be talked to...Brit wakes up ready to tell you his plans for world domination! Me, I am running from room to room making sure teeth are brush, clothes are on, lights are off, breakfast is eaten, backpacks are on, shirts are tucked in, well...you get the picture...I have a system...while any bystander would look at us and say, "holy cow, this is CHAOS"....it is a system, one I have perfected...for us.. In the bustle of the day, Brit and Aidan get in the car and off we go. Brit jabbers all the way to school, Aidan, thumb in mouth, looking like he'd rather be in bed. But when we get to Brit's school something happens...Brit gets out of the van and looks back before he closes the door and says, "bye Mom, love you, bye Aidy." Aidan, without fail, responds, "Bye Bit, have a good day". To which Brit responds, "you too Aidy, I love you." Aidan then, "love you too."

I do believe this small exchange is so important not only to the boys day....but also to mine...It makes me feel like, they don't necessarily need me, for them, to love each other. They love each other just fine.....

I often tell people that while Aidan was in my tummy, before we found out he was a boy, I would pray that God would give me what Britton needed....if he needed a sister, a girl, but if he needed a brother, a boy...Seeing my boys together, you can tell...God answered that prayer..They are JUST what the other needed....

I'm proud of you boys...love, Mom

Liam Jakob

The week of Christmas 2009, Josh and I found out we were going to have another baby. It has been a whirlwind pregnancy....completely different than the two before. I wasn't sick, I haven't gotten very big, I have craved ONLY apples and oranges, and have been EXHAUSTED! We just knew that these differences were because we were having a girl. On April 1, 2010, we found out that we were going to have another boy. The day we found out, we didn't have a name, had NO idea what we were going to name the baby other than we wanted the middle name to be Jakob..so..the name HAD to go with Jakob. The rest of the day was spent tossing names around. Finn, Liam, etc..I liked Finn but we had a little chuckle over Finn Griffin...and Josh liked Liam..but he said he would be fine with whatever I liked. That night, I went to bed. In my sleep, I had a dream, I was having a conversation with God. He was in front of me while I spoke with him. I asked him, "God, why couldn't you have sent me a girl? You know we are done after this baby, why couldn't we have a girl this time?" God said to me, "Misty, I sent to you the baby that your Grandfather chose for you." I said, "but why couldn't it have been a girl?" God said, "Misty, I am sending the child that your Grandfather and I chose for you." The next morning, I felt in my heart that this baby, this little miracle inside of me, his name was Liam. It just felt right in my heart. Later that day, I texted Josh a picture of an outfit that I had bought and I wrote, Liam's first outfit. He replied, Love it, the name and the outfit. When I got home, I decided that Britton's name means of British decent, Aidan's name means born of fire, I needed to know what Liam means. I looked it up...Liam means "the one who protects". Grandpa and God sent me a child and gave him the name "the one who protects". Then I got to thinking about it and realized that his middle name Jakob, and God appeared to me the same way he appeared to Jacob in the Bible, in a dream!

I have no doubt that God wants me to have this adorable boy in my tummy...Liam Jakob, I cannot wait to see you face to face. I love you,

Mommy