Jessica said she’s going to try to hold out on finding out whether it’s a boy or a girl until the day the baby is born. I somehow doubt that she’ll wait that long, but we’ll see. In the meantime, her mom is busy buying everything yellow, orange, and green that she can find for the baby.

Kevin

I’ve always thought Kayla is a lot like Mother, too! There are a lot of times when I think about how each of us kids has some of Mother’s traits in all of us. Jeff reminds me of what a hard-head Mother was. Marcus reminds me of what a big kid mother was, as Marcus picks on you, Kayla and Jordan in the same way as Mother did Pops and all of us. I think my inheritance from Mother’s personality is the big sense of humor and the love of music, and Stephanie has Mother’s short temper and the uncanny ability to be late to everything. When I think about all that I feel like Mother is still with us. Then when I look at all the grandkids I can completely see Mother with us. “The kids” have a lot of Mother in them, too, but I have to say that Kayla is definitely the most like her.

We love all of you, too!