Back to School!

I can’t believe we are already more than half way through September!  We’ve been busy the last couple of weeks getting back into our routine of preschool, mother’s day out and Bible Study Fellowship.  Christopher loves being back in school and tells everyone he’s in kindergarten.  (Not yet, that’s next year!)  Here he is on the first day of school and with his new teacher:

In the spirit of back-to-school, Will has had quite the knowledge explosion lately.  It seemed like it was just overnight that he went from not being able to sing his ABC’s correctly to not only knowing all his letters, but also knowing their sounds.  All the times he has watched the Letter Factory video are finally paying off!  He is also counting to 10, which is quite a big jump from his previous way of counting (1, 2, 1!).  He also picks up on song lyrics quickly and loves to sing along with our Seeds CD’s in the car.  (I highly recommend these CD’s, and I wrote this post about them on my other blog.)  Here are videos of Christopher and Will singing Ephesians 2:8 from the Seeds CD and Will singing his ABC’s.

Ephesians 2:8:  For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.

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Our big news!

Christopher and Will have an announcement:

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We are excited to be expecting a baby in early May!  Christopher is ECSTATIC.  Despite Will’s ability to repeat what his brother says, he is oblivious.  I made some shirts for Christopher and Will to wear to tell their grandparents the big news.  At one point, when the message was getting a little confused due to Will’s babbling on about something completely unrelated, Christopher started yelling, “Listen UP, Nana and Granddad!  We’re having a BABY!!!”

My favorite part of this pregnancy so far has been Christopher’s reaction and questions.  He has been praying for a baby sister for months . . . fortunately, he’s already prepared for the idea that it could be a brother.  He wants to share his beloved frog and blanket with the baby, and he reminded me that we’ll need to get down the baby toys.  He wanted to know how we know there is a baby in my tummy and when it will start growing.  And he worried that his tambourine might be scaring the baby.

When I got out a pregnancy book to show him what the baby looks like now and how tiny it is, Christopher got a little concerned that we might be having a dinosaur baby.  So I flipped forward a couple of months to show him that the baby will look more human later.  He studied the picture and said, “Momma, are we going to have to put some clothes on the baby AFTER it comes out??”  He thought it was HILARIOUS that the baby is going to come out naked!

We are thankful for this blessing to our family and would appreciate your prayers for a healthy pregnancy and baby.  If you want to pray as specifically as I am, you can pray for a healthy baby, weighing less than 10 pounds, who loves to sleep.