Baby coming

Here is an update....long overdue...
We are having another baby in April and it's a girl! We are pleased because that means Eden will have to learn to share and the boys will not have as difficult a time watching her get stuff just for 'girls.' This will give us a family of 8- wow! Funny how that sounds large and yet small at the same time. Even more odd is how wierd it seems to people we meet that we have 6 children- so many! they say. It's not common in this day to have more than 2-3 kids. I remind them that it wasn't long ago when it was normal and they usually respond- yes, I was one of six, or, my mother was one of 8...
Another common response is how I must have my 'hands full.' I try to always say that yes, I do, but they are also great helpers. I don't want my kids getting the idea that I always portray them as troublesome to strangers. Well today in the grocery store I was met with that comment and after I said what a help they were, Jacob replies, "yeah, most of the time we are, but sometimes we aren't so much." They laughed and I smiled at Jacob. It's nice how I feel I can relate to him more and more on an adult-level sense of humor.
I'm tired, but one day I will miss all this...