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This is my baby...no name yet. His color is changing! Has anyone had a foal born sorrel that turned palomino? His nose and around his eyes are yellow as the baby hair has gone and the big boy hair has come.

My first baby. The most friendly baby ever. He would let anybody hold him and would cuddle on their shoulder with his blanket.

People loved that. He was always very observant of anything odd. This made it hard to take him out where "odd" people may be seen. I was often embarrassed by his honest comments. He was very active and very head strong and very inquisitive. 

In nursery school he did not want to sit at story time because there were other things in the room to discover and he could only sit for a minute or two. 

One day when Nick was about 4, he went to our neighbors who often sat out front on their porch smoking cigarettes and said, "if you don't stop smoking you might die in the afternoon..." Then he told them that they should pick up the cigarette butts that they had thrown over the edge of their porch. 

The neighbor told me what he had told her and she (luckily) thought it was funny. He is funny. Very witty and still very observant. He has a very good and kind heart. He cares deeply for the underdog. 

Look at that beautiful face. Wow. Gavin was such a sweet baby. Just a perfect good baby.

Happy most of the time. Very early on he was very active and interested in sports that had balls. One day when he was about 15 months old, he took my hand and led me to the closet that was shut and urged me to open the door. I did it in order to see what he wanted. It was dad's basketball. I didn't even know it was up there. Gavin did. I got it down for him and for him it was HUGE. He carried it into our small kitchen because it had hard floors. He bounced it a couple of times and then tried to dribble it. Mind you he is 15 month old! He did it over and over and over. I didn't even know he'd seen anybody dribbling a basketball, but obviously he had! 

The boy was always throwing things and I knew it would eventually translate into a good sportsman. His first word was "ball". He also loved animals very much early on. He was always a very compassionate little boy.

My baby Regan. My most serious child. He was very thoughtful, wise, and  selfless. Hated his car seat. Not my most patient child. He was my most whiny and easily upset boy.  I used to call him my "Eeyore" because he could be a little pessimistic.

One day we were out and about. He hated to go anywhere in the car and he hated shopping with me.

I told him that I needed to get a few things at Sam's Club. He started in with the whining and about in tears. I tried to let him know it would not take long but he continued to whine. I decided to try bribery and so I said, "Regan, if you will come in and not cry and be a good boy, I will buy you an ice cream cone on our way out." I saw the sadness leave his face for a fleeting moment but then it was back and he said in his sad voice, "It will probably just melt..." 

Oh what a cute baby.

Here is my little Trevor.

What a CUTE baby.

Such a good baby and always so patient. He hardly ever cried and was a very content child.

When he was 3 we were driving home from visiting a branch in our stake. We were on the interstate and David went to the side a little and the ribs in the road to warn people on the side were loud when he drove over them. Trevor said, "Do it again dad!" So dad did it again. Trevor said, "Do it again dad!" So dad did it again and this went on about 4 or 5 times. Then dad said, "This is the last time." So, he did it the last time and Trevor said, "Do it again dad!" Dad told him that he wasn't doing it anymore. Trevor asked a couple more times getting the same answer from dad. Finally, Trevor said, "I'm gonna tell you a baby." and then asked one more time for dad to do it again. Dad answered the same again. Trevor said, "Okay fine, you're a baby..."

In his world, he would do about anything to avoid being labeled "a baby" and thought it would work for dad! He looked confused when we broke out in laughing because he had just leashed out the ultimate insult.