Jamie & Joel....

....are growing a little baby boy... it's so amazing that before the end of the year, there will be another little boy on this street.. they found out today & shared the news with us, which we all celebrated (of course, we would have celebrated just as much had they learned they were having a girl).. watching someone else grow a baby takes Troy & I back to the days before Taggert & Riley.. Taggert is 7 now, but it seems like yesterday when Troy was surprising me with body pillows & ice cream.. or, the first time we heard each boy's heartbeat on the monitor at the doctor's office.. and getting a little choked up.. or that very first ride to the hospital, on the way to deliver Taggert.. Troy driving with white knuckles in the ice & snow, me trying not to distract him by making too much noise with each contraction... and then asking him to stop on the way for magazines.. patiently, he looked at me and said "do you think you really need them right now?"... in the middle of a contraction I whispered, "yes"..
almost makes you want to have another..