Our first son was born on December 4th at 1:19am after 6 1/2 hours of labor in the comfort of our home in Springfield, MO. We named him Cal David Lee because we weren't sure if the Lord would bless us with another son and wanted to get a bit of both of our fathers into the middle name. He was a big 'ol boy at 9 pounds 10 ounces and 21 1/2 inches long. He was such a calm baby and the girls adored having him around. He's still pretty big but thinks I can still carry him around and cuddle with him like a newborn. Today he weighs 41 pounds and is 42 inches tall (he has grown an inch and a half since October! And, interestingly, his weight in pounds has always been almost the same digit as his height in inches!) He has weighed about the same as Bryse since he was 9 months old and has been just a couple inches shorter since he was two! He has a hard time communicating because of being behind on pronunciation but that doesn't stop his amazing vocabulary! The other day I was sorting through some dinosaurs for the party and said, "I think this is just a trex." to which he responded, "No, that's an allosaraus." He knows many dinosaur names! We do a short little bible study at breakfast every morning and he always, without fail, says at some point during the study (no matter what we are talking about): "Jesus died on the cross......for our sins......and he came back to life!" This annoys Bryse to no end but Darby and I think it's awful cute! Him and Deakin sword fight a lot, using whatever they can find. They chase eachother around and play very nicely! Cal has been sharing his room with Deakin for several months now and he does SO well with that. Never had a problem out of him with waking his brother. If he wakes before him in the morning, he quietly gets up and leaves the room shutting the door behind him. Such a sweet big brother. We have so much fun with him. Thank you, Lord, for this little man. We had a super fun party on the first for Cal and Darby! Darby wanted a baking party and homemade pizza. Cal wanted dinosaurs. So I decorated and set up dino games and art down stairs for the little boys and got baking stuff ready upstairs. I baked six large pizza crusts and nine personal sized crusts two days a head of time. Baked the cakes the day before and decorated the night before. So that morning all I had to do was put toppings on the pizzas and decorate the cakes. We had seven adults and thirteen kids. The big girls made their own pizzas while the boys played. It was a beautiful day outside so they played some outside as well. We ate pizzas and then the girls made sugar cookies with cookie cutters and while those were in the oven we cut into the cakes! While the cookies cooled we ripped into presents and then the girls iced the cookies and decorated them! It was a blast with little stress for mama because of all the prep work. Daddy called while we were fixing to eat pizza and talked to a few people on facetime. He was very blessed to see so many people at the house (most he hadn't met) and was glad that I had such good fellowship with so nice people!
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