Not for even 5 Minutes.....

...can I leave my almost 2 year old ALONE. This boy is ALL BOY. What do I do??? Most of you know, I grew up in a family of all girls. Five of us. No brothers. Josh on the other hand, has only 1 sister and 3 brothers. He is the oldest. I knew that having kids...Well my heart was really wanting girls because that was all I knew. Well some of you probably also know that we NEVER found out what we were having. With all 3 babies. We always liked it being a surprise and Josh liked being able to go into the waiting room to tell everyone or get the older kids. He always said it was his only "glory or fame" in this whole process. Now some of you might be thinking why does he deserve any "glory or fame" when he didn't carry the child for 9+ months??? I don't have an answer for that...such is life I guess. So anyways...I was of course very pleasantly surprised with Kylee being a girl and I had a hunch that Kobi would be a girl. I was also pretty convinced that Kruz would be a girl. I had all three exact, easy pregnancy's. So as you can imaging... there was A LOT of cheering from Josh, laughing from the doctors and 2 sets of nurses (they were just in the middle of shift changes, so we had them all) and then of course crying from me. I WAS SCARED TO DEATH!!!
What on earth was I going to do with a boy?? I didn't even know where to begin. I was scared I couldn't love him as much as the girls, how would I do his hair?, teach him to go to the bathroom, I would have to give into the whole "gun" thing, the list could go on.
Did I really just have a boy???

Anyways, This boy is amazing. I LOVE HIM TO PIECES. He brightens my day every morning when I walk into his room and he has his hand down his pants grabbing himself.

I love it when he brings a bucket of sand in from the back
yard and dumps it out on the rug.

I love it when I go running all around the house looking for him and he is hiding from me.

I love it when he hears the bathwater running (usually for one of the girls) and by the time I get to him, he is undressed and running to the tub. Most times I get there in time, sometimes I don't.

I love it when we are all outside "watching him", and he gets into the car with Kobi and locks them in.

I love it when he stands on the coffee table and jumps to the couch and yells "wohoo" with his hands in the air.

I love that when I got home from church today and I put him down and went to change my clothes he had pulled the piano bench into the kitchen, unscrewed a bottle of bubbles from yesterdays birthday party and opened the plastic part with his teeth and spilled them ALL down the front of him and onto my piano bench. Then took a knife from the drawer and started chopping at the piece of cake that was brought home(same party) and was licking the knife with frosting.

I love it when he gets dressed up with the girls things, especially beads and walks around the house.

OK do you get the point. I seriously can't do anything in this house while he is awake. HOW DO YOU MOMS OF BOYS DO IT??? Seriously I need to know. And I know that probably these things are "normal" and not even very bad yet....but HE ISN'T EVEN 2 YET!!! I love this boy so much. He is the "cuddler" I never had with the girls. I can actually rock him to sleep in my arms. (Never with the girls) He always greets me with "hi mom" and pats my cheek with his little hand. ( I love that the most) He hears me come home and runs with his hands in the air "momma." Josh thinks he is a wimp because he is such a momma's boy, but I can't help it. There is just nothing like your little boy. I feel so blessed that Heavenly Father entrusted me, a mom with no experience, to raise this little boy.