Gotta Love Those Boys!

Everyone asks how it's going with 3 boys in the home...Well, Jaron and I can honestly say that we're loving having a precious third, and our two "big boys" are keeping us laughing, frustrated, and warm-hearted...sometimes all at once!  I have to share a "warm-heartening" experience I had with them not too long ago.  Since Trevor has been born and I've been in the night-feeding routine, I'm not such the early riser and will squeeze all the minutes of sleep I can get out of each morning until either Trevor or the boys' frolicking wakes me up.  On one such morning, I went down to the kitchen to find Spencer and Mikey, food storage buckets pulled up to the counter, unloading the dishwasher.  They looked up at me with huge smiles and announced proudly, "Mom! We're doing the dishes for you!"  I was so touched by their sweetness that I didn't have the heart to tell them that they had just unloaded a dishwasher full of dirty dishes!  (I distinctly remember forgetting to start the dishwasher the night before!)   Not many days later my "helpers" were back at it.  This time I heard Spencer coaching Mikey with sweeping the living room floor and washing the mirrors.  I was nursing the baby when they ran in to tell me the good deeds they had done.  "And Mom, " said Spencer, "don't worry about us using the cleaning stuff (the cleaning solutions I won't let them touch) because we washed the mirrors with water!"

What can I say?  Gotta love those boys!!