it's bedtime at the mcmurry homestead. everyone's asleep except me and that's just because i wanted to give a quick account of last night and today's happenings that made me smile, laugh, and stop and stare in awe at my boys.

last night on the way home from chili's after dinner, connor said he needed a haircut. said he wanted all his hairs to look like daddy's. not gonna happen anytime soon as far as i'm concerned, but when he's 34 or so and in charge of his own hairs he can cut 'em however he wants...all of them hairs.

cohen had his 2 month check-up this morning. he weighed 13.6 lbs and was 23 inches long. he was in the 50thish percentile for height and the 80thish percentile for weight...short and squishy, but oh so adorable! he got a 2 thumbs up from dr. fusco and 3 shots in his chubby little thighs from a very nice nurse who felt very badly for making my baby (and his mama) cry. thank the Good Lord Lane was able to get away from work to come hold him for me while he got poked in the legs. i kept telling myself it was for his own good but it'd be fine with me if he never had to cry like that again.

while we were at dr. fusco's, we asked her about connor's hyper-sensitivity to sudden loud noises (he just breaks into tears at the sound of a loud buzzer at a basketball game or the train's whistle at silver dollar city-and he LOVES trains!). she said he must just be more sensitive than others and he would most likely grow out of it...she suggested i carry some soft ear plugs for him to use whenever he might need them. something occurred to me there in that office. connor prayed for God to give him a baby brother and God not only answered his prayer but also included a special blessing in that cohen does not cry often, or loudly when he does cry. how amazing it is that God sent this precious little baby to us and blessed our socks off! right down to the little soft and infrequent crys. connor will have to be told this someday so that's why i'm writing about it now. i want him to know how much God loves him. and i want him to know that when he asks God for something and it's in the plans, God will blow him away with the goodness and perfectness of His answer. since the time cohen was born, i was only seeing his good-babyness from my perspective...it never occurred to me until today that God was also blessing connor in a very specific little way by creating cohen to be such a good baby. wow.

i recorded both of their little voices tonight on my iphone. i never, ever want to forget what they sound like. and i never, ever want to forget how much God loves my little boys. and me. despite myself. wow. He's so good. Good Night.