Caden

• You LOVE Disney's Cars, especially Lightning McQueen, Sheriff, Jackson Storm, and Doc Hudson and have at least 3 cars in your hands at all times.
• You have the cutest little bouncy run and the biggest brown eyes and long lashes.
• You don't like wearing socks, but love wearing shoes 
• You love riding your Jurassic Park Jeep, even if it's freezing outside
• You're still super easy to put down to sleep
• You love brushing your teeth, but only if we let you fill your cup up with water and pour it out first.
• You've started being able to stay up with your brothers to watch our nightly show. Right now it's X-Men, but I think as soon as we're done with that we'll introduce you to Star Wars: The Clone Wars so I'm excited for that.
• You love taking baths and take at least one, sometimes two, per day. Before getting in the bath you grab every single toy individually, hold it up, say the name, make me say the name, then throw it in the tub. It's pretty adorable. The toys are Star Wars guys, an assortment of rubber duckies, different trucks, and If You Give A Mouse A Cookie characters.
• You're still a picky eater, but have discovered your love for applesauce and Cheerios (sho-shos). It's hard to resist when you enthusiastically shout "Moh appa sauce peeeeeese!!" You also have an unexplainable love for Cup Bop chicken. Seriously, you don't even touch any other chicken, but somehow know when it's Cup Bob and eat it
• You love Super Why and I think because of that love have known all of your letters by sight for probably 2 months now. It just came out of nowhere, you weren't talking at all and then all of the sudden you started saying a bunch of words AND knew your letters!

Nolan

• School is pretty boring for you right now, but you still love recess and any brainbooster activities (like art, P.E., music, etc).
• Your bus driver, Adam, is probably one of your favorite people. 
• You still love writing stories and drawing pictures. I love seeing what you create.
• You're still playing piano and I feel like your excitement goes up and down based on what song you are playing. Right now you're learning Believer by Imagine Dragons and the X-Men theme song.
• You like to be right and like to correct people when you think they're wrong
• Since getting a Lego set for Christmas from Uncle BJ you are ALL IN with Legos. It's you're favorite thing to do when you have free time (besides playing one of your games on the tablet). You asked me once on the way home from piano. "Mom, what am I good at that I could make money?" I suggested extra chores around the house, but you didn't like that idea, so I suggested baking and your eyes lit up. You made a flyer and have taken it to activity days and the neighbors houses. We've made a lot of chocolate chip and sugar cookies, but you've made like $80!

Branson

• You are always so kind and thoughtful and make my day often with your sweet notes saying I'm the best mom in the world.
• You love nothing more than to have someone play with you, especially in the basement or loft.
• You get really frustrated often because you feel like people are always bossing you arount (ahem, Nolan)
• You are STILL not potty trained. We've thrown our hands up at this point. We are all out of ideas. So for now we barely mention it except to confront you and say, "Branson, you've had an accident (because you'd just sit in it for forever) and then remind you to go take a shower and change into a new pull up. We just can't figure out what will motivate you. We've been to 3 doctors and all of them say nothing is wrong. Maybe a little backed up, but all insist that 

You, I & We

Nolan, you: ask the most deep and thoughtful questions, are regularly reading 140+ page chapter books, are about to go into 1st grade, have made up names for every single castle character in the toy room, look forward to special family things like movie night and have a hard time if they get disrupted, don't like soda or juice (except for orange and apple juice), complain about dinner on the regular, request crepes at least twice a week, declare days where we bake the 'best days ever!', love to celebrate things, call swimming lessons 'death lessons,' usually say sorry just so you won't get into trouble, worry us sometimes because you don't seem to think of others feelings but yet when I'm really having a tough day you never hesitate to comfort me, have the cutest smile and infectious laugh (I love hearing you laugh), like to play with kids that are older than you.

Branson, you: are so thoughtful and unselfish, love to snuggle but are starting to act like you don't, say the funniest things, are always trying to talk us into sweets with breakfast, almost always have dirty feet, love one on one time, know how to push Nolan's buttons, are always kissing baby sister in my belly, don't like when Caden tries to take your toys but are surprisingly nice about giving them to him eventually, have really taken off with your reading in the last few weeks, might kill us with your potty accidents, love nothing more than a good lightsaber fight, are always showing us your new 'moves', can do front flips on the trampoline, are really smart and kind and make friends easily.

Caden, you: never stop moving, must take your minky couture blanket with you when we take you out of your crib each time, have started closing doors but get ticked if you close them tightly enough that you can't reopen them, eat more off of the table and floor between meals than in your chair during meals, love your grandpa's, can understand a ton but are still only saying about 5 words (mama, dada, papa, bah [bath], and moh [more]), love Cocomelon and Super Why, love to do things you know people will laugh at, have the best smile, love to put lids on jars, are very opinionated on everything from food to toys in the bath to which shoes you want to wear (and which shoes you want other people to wear), love to be in on the action, only ask to be held if the person can get you closer to something you want (never because you just want to be held), are hit and miss when it comes to going to nursery without mom or dad, are not snuggly and it's a big problem for me, don't seem to like heights, love opening and closing heavy lids and somehow haven't smashed your fingers yet, have an ear piercing screech, love sugar.

I: am usually feeling guilty about not spending more time with you boys, sometimes wish I could speed up time but mostly want to stop it altogether, love the new book club I'm in, love history, am missing hockey, want to be more fun and laugh more often, wish I had the courage to quit my job and be a stay at home mom, would do anything to see my boys smile, love it when Branson whispers something in my ear, love it when Nolan snuggles with me, love it when Caden puts his head on my shoulder even if it's just for a few seconds, worry so much about not being able to protect my boys from mean kids and rejection, love playing softball with your dad, love how kind and gentle and forgiving your dad is, wish I could figure out how to not yell so much, love to bake with my boys, love a clean car, love the smell of rain, love picking a new soap scent when the old one runs out, love twinkle lights and candles, love sitting outside on a summer night, am the Primary Secretary. 

We: love family movie nights and Friday Feast, love snuggling, read the scriptures and a chapter book together every night, are glad to be back at church as a family, try to emphasize growth mindsets and working hard and being faithful, love America, love decorating for holiday's and other celebrations. 

Baby Bailey #4 is a...

First thing tomorrow morning we get to find out if baby #4 is a boy or a girl! It really is such an exciting time in our lives. Tomorrow we get to find out the next piece in our family puzzle. Tomorrow we start planning a bit more for the future. I can't even really describe the feelings I'm having right now. Of course I'm so excited, but also kind of...nervous? Or even not excited sometimes because it's kind of fun not knowing? I don't know!

Of course with 3 boys most everyone has asked us if we're hoping for a girl. I can honestly, truly say that I don't care either way. I'm really not pining for a girl in any way. Of course it would be fun and different to have a girl, but I love my boys so much that I would be perfectly happy being a total boy mom too. 

I think Justin would be a cute girl dad, but he's also such a fun boy dad. Just today we were going through their toys and it was just as hard for Justin to get rid of any toys as it was for the boys! He's really just a big kid hehe. 

We've also joked that a girl would throw a wrench in things because we'd have to figure out the room situation at some point, and we already have all the boy clothes we could possibly need, and way too many toys already. So adding a girl would definitely add to our stuff haha. Preston and Devin just had a girl after 3 boys so it'd be crazy if we had that same makeup. 

For the last month or so Branson has been insisting he wants the baby to be a girl, while Nolan sticks with his desire for a boy to increase his "boy army" haha! Oh, and also, I learned something new just today. When B said he wanted the baby to be a girl Nolan piped up and told me, "he only says that when parents are around. When it's just me he says he wants it to be a boy." I looked at Branson with an 'is that true?' look and his mischievous smile told me it definitely was. Silly kid!

Anyway, super excited for tomorrow and I can truly say that all we are hoping for is a healthy baby. We can't wait to see this sweet little one that is joining our family and learn the first big piece of information about him/her. Baby, we all love you so so much already! Your big brothers are constantly rubbing and hugging and kissing my belly because they can't wait to meet you!