Growing Up

I recently took the boys to UA and took a few pics. I cannot believe how fast they are growing up!! I look so forward to this time every year and can compare the pics to see how much they have grown over the past year. It is amazing to me. I should be able to tell from the pants that now look like capris, or shirts that now show their tummies or the shoes that we just can't cram their toes into anymore, but when I see it in the pics, I'm so amazed. I wouldn't take anything in this world for healthy growing boys. Yes, with the getting older comes different "battles" to face, like smart mouths, forgetting their manners so easy(tell me WHY that happens!!), just being exposed to things at school that we would have never heard about at least until Jr. High! But anyway, the Lord is so awesome in how he developed these little precious babies that are now turning into precious little boys and before I can blink, will be precious young men. I'm sure by that stage, precious will not be a word they will appreciate, but you get the picture. I hope no matter what "battles" we will face that we will handle them in the way we should and always lead them in the right way, even if it's not the most "popular" way. I have posted some of these through the last few posts, but wanted to post them together. I'm sure you may get tired of seeing the same pics, but I never get tired of these sweet little fake smiles(can somebody tell me WHY that also happens?!!)