Meet Mini Mr. Rinehart

I think it's time I introduce the mini's....

I'll start in the order they were born... seems fitting....

First up is Mini Mr. Rinehart

My 4 year old! Yikes! You could never imagine how quickly 4 years could pass... well you could if you have kids of your own. Sometimes I even forget how small he actually was until I look back at pictures.

My baby boy! I wanted him so badly that I was sure GOD would give me a girl just to prove that I could love her just the same (which of course I would have), but he didn't, he sent me a perfect, healthy little boy! Everything I had dreamed about and more. I can't tell you why, but I had always secretly (or not so secretly) dreamed about having a little boy. I always admired how good boys were to their mothers and I guess I longed for that bond.

GOD made no mistakes! I have my boy and he is as boy as they come! He loves mud, snakes, rats, playing rough, peeing outside... dare I go on?

He's been obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine and all his friends since the day he could play with toys! Every year I keep thinking Thomas will quietly fade away and he'll find interest in something new, but Thomas is still his favorite and he has quite a little a HUGE collection of trains, etc. to prove it!

He loves all animals and would prefer a trip to Petco over a trip to a theme park any day as he proved last weekend. He asks about three times a day to go to Petco and get a pet [fill in the blank]. One day it was a penguin, the next it was a snake, today it's a BOWWL frog (as he pronounces it)... and as soon as we get inside he is pressed up against a new cage everytime... "Hi Rat! You wanna come to my house?? .... he said yesss!"

He still requires a good nap and I have witnessed his head make a full rotation without one. He is a charmer and will play you like a fiddle to get what he wants, but all and all he is a good, nice boy that just wants to have fun and make you laugh.

Almost everyday he says something cute or funny... or just out of the blue and I usually have no idea where he's learned it or heard it... but I have to say that these are my favorite little moments! It's a garaunteed smile, every time!

He takes everything in and never forgets a thing!

I thank GOD everyday for him!

Sorry ladies.... he's all mine!