Wow only 6 more sleeps until...BABY!  It is quite a surreal feeling to know the exact time and place this baby will be born!  Keilan has been his sweet little self the past few days.  He frequently asks me if he can hug and kiss the baby (my belly) and drills me with questions about what it will be like to have a baby in the house.  I didn't really think he had thought it through that concretely, but he has and I suppose that is good.  He told me today (as I held back tears), that God made him special, and that God would help him to be a brother.  He then said that it was going to really hurt me when Dr. Siren SAWED me open to get the baby out!   How cute!  You know, I do get off pretty easy with the whole "birds and the bees."  When asked, "How and where did I come out of your belly?"  I can simply reply...look, right here!  I'll show you the scar! Lucky me!  Lucky me!

Please continue to keep all us Barnesies in your prayers as we have quite an adventure that awaits us!  Nathan is SUPER busy this week (and next actually) and I know that it is really starting to weigh heavily on him.  He feels torn between two passions (which I love him for) and is trying so hard to "be" many places at once.  Tomorrow is Mother's Day and I know that it won't be a day of pampering for me (which is fine) so I got thinking.  I think tomorrow I will celebrate Nathan.  I wouldn't be the mother, if he wasn't the father.  I am so thankful that he encourages me to be ME and be a mother!  Although I think he blames a lot of Keilan's craziness on me!