Lover Boy

Colby is the sweetest guy with the biggest heart. Often he comes to me to give me a hug or tell me he loves me, or he climbs in bed with me because, 'I just wanted to be with you. I haven't been with you much today.' When he plays with our pets, he is so gentle and affectionate, even talking to them in baby talk. For some reason I always imagined having a rough and tumble kind of son, and he's definitely all boy with the running and jumping like a super hero, shooting his Nerf guns, and driving his matchbox cars all over the house. I just never imagined him also being so sweet, loving, and kind. I pray he finds the wife God intends for him to have, one that will indulge in Colby's affections and won't take advantage, a wife that will be grateful for his personality and won't take it for granted. She's gonna be a lucky lady. I know because I'm blessed to have Colby as my son.

sorry it's been so long. so much has been going on that i haven't had much time, so i'll give some highlights and silly stuff really quickly. a couple weeks ago we got a dog. his name is Bama. he's a lab/chesapeake bay retriever mix, and he's super awesome. he's already housebroken, which is very important to me, and he is so good with the kids. we're happy to have him here :) natalie has been going on about black cats for the past several months. she keeps telling us how they're bad and they scare her. i asked her about black kittens and she said they are only a little scary, but she still hates other black cats. i'm not sure where all this is coming from, but whatever. also, all natalie can talk about (other than black cats) is God. she wants to know what He looks like, what color His hair is, and where He is in heaven right now. then the more complicated questions come, like 'why did God make heaven? why did God make earth? why does God like us?' we go around and around with these questions constantly because the answers that are age appropriate aren't satisfactory to her, but i can't expand much more because they'd fly over her head, so i had gotten to answering her with 'you can ask Him when you meet Him.' then we get into a discussion on going to heaven and dying, which brings up questions of my maternal grandmother who died of cancer, and questions about death, etc. thankfully these questions happen most often in the van, and by the time it gets to this point, we pull into the driveway and the conversation is over. i think this is proof of God's sense of humor; He HAS to be laughing at the questions like bullets coming from the back seat and my desperate attempts to answer every one without losing my mind before we get to our house. and i admit, sometimes i look up to the sky out the windshield and cock an eyebrow. God knows it's my way of saying that He better be glad He has all the answers because He's gonna have a lot to field when natalie gets a hold of him, lol! it's hot. but i know you know that. colby and meredith are good. not as much on that front as on nat-nat's. thank goodness, ha! i'll try to post more of their little quips as they come. they're all so hilarious!