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It's been a long week. There's been sickness ending, friends visiting (ones with three children under 3), great food consumed, babies celebrated, and me left with the feeling of sadness over missing some great Easter moments. We went to church this morning and will have dinner at my parent's with Auntie Nina later today, but I wish I could have been part of the choir again. The last time I sang with the Easter choir was when I was pregnant with Jericho, so three years ago. I also missed the Good Friday service for the first time in I don't know how long. I love going to the Good Friday service and I was even asked to participate in the service by doing a reading, but it's hard when you have company coming to stay... Maybe next year?

We had lots of fun with Casey & Tera. They are the couple we like to copy. They had their first son and exactly nine months later - to the day - we had our first son. Then they had their second son and about 8 months later Kai was born. They brought their 10 day old daughter with them and I prayed like crazy that I wouldn't get the baby bug. She gorgeous, but I don't think I'm ready yet.

There's been lots of talk of babies lately - on Monday my eldest cousin Bill and his wife Bonnie had their first child, William Braydon, but he'll go by Braydon. I had heard on Sunday that my sister Megan, who usually gets pregnant AFTER me, is expecting her third. She'll have three kids under 36 months! I know I can't guarantee my sanity will be intact after three so I want to make sure I'm ready. Megan is ready, but I am not. I've had about 4 people ask me when I'll be next, and as much as I love babies, I would prefer to wait. I also went to a baby shower for Lucas on Friday night.. he's not born yet, but it was rather tempting watching all these little boy outfits going by.. I wonder if Amanda has noticed anything missing yet : P

There have been a few more funnies lately from the boys. One of the funniest was when the boys were in the tub last night and Kai hit Jericho. Jericho's response was to try and hit him back. Nate explained that that was not an option and Jericho replied, "Mommy hit Malachi?" Oh dear. There are some things you just hope your child doesn't say in front of people and that was one of them.

All in all, I truly feel like my life is pretty awesome right now. Good things are happening and I'm happy. If there's one thing I'm hoping for - it's that trip to Italy... oh and I sure wish Coquitlam Centre was open today.