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They are so cute when they are asleep...

Little Luke

Three weeks early, our newest little boy, Luke Prestley joined our family. He was born at 11:37pm on March 2. (Birthdate-3/2/11. Awesome!) He weighed in at 8 lbs 9 oz and was 20 1/2 inches long. Apparently I can't grow small babies, even when they are born three weeks before their due date.

Luke has quite a bit of hair, and it's blond. Ben and Jack had hair that was a little darker when they were born. He has long blond eyelashes, that are already starting to darken. Here's lots of pictures of our nummy little boy-

The delivery went awesome. (I will write more about it later.) I am still feeling a little blindsided by the fact that he is already here. We were expecting him to be early, but not three weeks early. My prediction about being the mother of three boys came true. Ben was excited to have another brother and although Jack is excited he asked if I could have a girl the next time.

A few people have asked about his name middle name, Prestley. It's not like Elvis Presley (notice no T). Prestley is my great grandpa's middle name and my Grandma's brother's name. A couple of months ago, I asked my Grandma if she had any suggestions for boy names. She told me her nephew has a son named, Luke Prestley, and she liked that. And that was exactly the name we were thinking of when I asked her for suggestions.

I didn't write my last post to solicit compliments, but thank you for them. Like Janene commented it's difficult to choose how to spend the time we are given. Time is precious and most of my time is spent with my precious little ones. That's the way I want it to be, it's just overwhelming sometimes that they are almost all I have time for. Any activity I do I have to assess how it effects my family and if it's worth my time.

Some people do and make amazing things that I would like to do too. For Easter I made Easter baskets for the boys. They were cute, but to make them the boys had to watch a lot of television. Probably not worth my time, lesson learned. It doesn't mean that I can never do stuff like that. It just means it's not the right "season." I remind myself of that a lot. However intense any "season" of life is, it will be sad when it passes. Enjoy it, be content.

Today I was content when the boys spent a half an hour putting stuff in my little kitchen aid chopper and chopping it up. I told them no toys. (A while ago my boys saw some Will it Blend videos. Have you seen them?) I gave them old food out of the fridge and the cupboard and they laughed and laughed and laughed while they chopped it up.

Ben has recently taken to climbing trees. Specifically the pine tree in our back yard that is at least 50 feet tall. He climbs almost to the top. Makes me nervous! Today Jack came in and said, "Mommy, Benjamin is in the tree, like Kookaburra sits in the tree." Know the song? Me and Jack sang it and then made up a version about Ben in the pine tree. Sooo cute! Made me happy.