Brett turns three today!  If you ask him how old he is he holds up his hand, takes a few seconds to get the correct number of fingers up and says --- four. (he's really only three) The first thing he said as he came up the stairs this morning is "it's my happy birfday!"

I still remember when I first new for sure that I was pregnant again. This was a surprise baby, we thought we were done with our family of 3 sons. I did not always like that decision but had come to terms with it. Now I can't imagine life without my littlest boy.  I was surprised but excited.  I knew DH was NOT going to be happy. I told him, and no he was NOT happy. In fact he wouldn't even discuss it for the first few months. He would just change the subject whenever I brought it up. When I started showing, then it became real and he started dealing with it. Now our youngest is the apple of his eye! He loves his boy, and his boy loves his daddy!

Look at them now!! 

His brothers all were very excited! I had not known what we were having with the two middle boys, and with the oldest the ultrasound said he was a girl! Wrong. With this pregnancy the doc wanted a ultrasound because due dates were uncertain. We decided to know what the baby was going to be. Everyone was there during the ultrasound. When the technician said it's a boy, we all laughed. One brother cried a bit. He was very dissapointed.

This pregnancy was more difficult on me emotionally.  I'm not sure if it is age or what but, hormones were working overtime and I was a basket case!  His delivery ended up being an emergency C-section. His umbilical cord was around his neck three times!

He is the life of the family. We sit around the dinner table sometimes just laughing at his antics and he is absorbing it all.  He will keep husband and I young.  I look at my oldest and remember when he was tiny and I know that his life is flying past.  I will be graduating the oldest as I teach the youngest to read.  I have many years left of this life of a home educating mom. A life I love and would not trade for all the prestige and recognition in the world.

Happy Birfday Brett!