3 BOYS UNDER 3!?!? How we are really feeling... | A Sunday In Our Life Q&A Vlog 🕊️

I could cuddle for a few minutes, so is that a no? Good job. Can you roll down? Good job Noah. Good morning you guys. It is a Sunday morning and we're gonna do a little day in the life Q&A style vlog today. Kind of take you along our day. I'm currently making some oatmeal for the boys that are spring chickens and wide awake at 6 15. They've already been up for like literally almost 30 minutes. I'm not sure if you follow me on Instagram or not but I filmed an entire like two day vlog last week and realized that I filmed all of it on slow motion and it was like not recoverable. I filmed so much too. I definitely had one of those like laugh so you don't cry moments because it was all leading up to our gender reveal shoot and there was like try on hauls and shopping. I had a word from the lord and there was just like so much in it that I was like you're kidding me. So anyways it's okay. Just means that one wasn't supposed to go out and this one is and so long story short I'm gonna finish making this oatmeal. We're gonna bring you along our day and we're gonna answer some of y'all's questions about baby boy number three. Three boys under three. Can't believe y'all finally know. My kids are quite patiently waiting right now so I'm gonna do this. Okay while my kiddos are eating I was just sending this audio message to a girlfriend because we were having this conversation about the lord using social media and she was kind of like if you didn't use it back then do you really think he uses it now? Just like what's the purpose inside of it and I was reading in the Psalms. I've been in the Psalms a lot lately. I've been in first Samuel and second Samuel and the Psalms. I'm just like it's kind of depending on my mood in the morning. I'm going through the Hillsdale course in Samuel so I feel like I'm kind of doing that more but in the mornings I've just been like loving the Psalms lately so long story short. Psalm 96. I'm just gonna start in verse two but I felt like this was really encouraging because it says sing to the lord praise his name each day proclaim the good news that he saves publish his glorious deeds among the nations tell everyone about the amazing things he does great is the lord he is most worthy of praise but I love those two words in particular that say proclaim and publish tell everyone and it says to the nations and so what a beautiful opportunity we have in this day and age to publish about the things that he's doing in our lives the things that he's done and it go out to the nations like like that in an instant we can tell people around the world about Jesus and then in 105 it says give thanks to the lord and proclaim his greatness let the whole world know what he has done sing to him yes sing his praises tell everyone about his wonderful deeds and again it's like tell everyone proclaim and publish all the amazing things that he does just a little encouragement if you needed one today so I'm out doing some quick errands before we head to church and um Tori sent me over a question to answer to reply to to respond to and I think it's a pretty juicy one I'm gonna try to answer this as succinctly as possible I just got gas I'm gonna go get the car washed and I'm gonna go to my buddy Gabe's to pick up something I need for my trip that I leave on tomorrow morning and so the question is how are you being intentional about raising your boys differently than you would raise a girl actually changing plans looks like the car wash is closed hola papi hola so got what I needed and I've been trying to answer this question of how will Tori and I raise our boys differently than we might raise girls but I've just gotten so long-winded honestly because this is this can be kind of like more of like a controversial uh topic or more of like a hot take but a secondary hot take is the fact that I believe that we're allowed we're entitled to our own opinion and we're allowed to disagree and um so anyways I trust you guys to hear what I'm saying and and and to not hear what I'm not saying so how will we raise them differently uh I'm of the but there's some pretty distinct differences and so right now we're at an age where the differences of how we're going to raise our boys is a little bit smaller versus as they get older and they come into manhood so right now it's more of like how will you raise your boys differently than the way society wants you to raise them and that's that's an interesting one so I'm of the opinion that the world has progressed so much um praise God but it's become so convenient and so comfortable that the normal character traits that are inherent to boys and to men aren't needed anymore they're not needed right now rather I should say you ever heard that um that quote that says hard times make strong men strong men make good times good times make weak men weak men make hard times hard times make strong men and so I think the big thing is because we are experiencing you know good times I know that can be subjective you know depending on the day nowadays but that produces weak men and so we are just not interested in producing weak men and so we don't want to look at the energy level the desire for adventure the desire to climb to run to to tackle to wrestle to play to get your hands dirty to scuff your knees we don't want those things to be stifled because they're not traits that we deem as important because it can cause friction or disruption um to society and so that's probably the biggest thing that we're looking at right now is how do we embrace that those little balls of testosterone how do we embrace their energy level the desire to conquer to pursue adventure to climb on top of the window seal like I'm like please get down you're gonna hurt yourself but how do we embrace it in a safe way in a way that's gonna foster that energy that's so inherent to them um that's what we're focused on right now and we'll get into more stuff like you know raising them in terms of how do you uh a future spouse um and what that looks like versus what I what a how we raise a girl in that capacity but right now it's it's more about the energy levels it's more about not saying sit on your butt put your finger over your mouth follow the rules don't act up don't mess up don't disrupt us because it's it's so easy for us to just want to sit on the couch and rot and scroll to oblivion or put on netflix and just give them an ipad and we've done that so I'm not throwing shade but it's so easy just to want to do that because you can just like zone out and then there's so much energy instead it's like well wait a second they have this energy for a reason and so what Tory and I are doing is like the 3e method right now for the boys which is to employ encourage and exhaust and so we want to give them tasks to accomplish we want to encourage them just give them that confidence that motivation that coaching but just that like you're doing such a good job because it's just that they want to do what we're doing if we're vacuuming they want to vacuum if we're taking out the trash they went like it's we want to encourage them in those things and the final thing is to exhaust them to get that energy out to allow them to just feel exhausted and satisfied after a fun day of playing so I know it's so long-winded and I apologize for that but we're passionate about this topic and to be transparent we're like when you say we I mean me me and the boys are going to be doing a whole becoming a man journey and so we'll probably start that around the age three or four for each boy but literally every year there'll be a trip that we go on and we will genuinely pursue manhood together and tackle challenges and be on a journey and hop into creeks and you know jump over fire and you know and and you know build something we'll do different tasks that will allow us to build those character traits of what it means to be a man and of course they will get harder and harder over time as they're young it'll be more simple you know stuff but but yeah so that stuff will it'll become more different as they get older but right now it's just about the energy levels I'm gonna go get Publix I'm sorry for being so long-winded gotta go also am I the only one who does this that when I come to the store I don't make a list I walk down every aisle and I just like look to see what we need am I the only one who does this I feel like it's been like a full day and it's like it's 8 30 game changer get a wagon can you help daddy yeah let's see what you can do yeah you want to pick this one up oh this is heavy isn't it can you get that up have y'all ever heard that like a little quote that taking your kids outside is like unplugging them and plugging them back in if they're having a hard time so that's what we're doing for mr no man who rides in the front of his wagon literally like he's in the front of a boat what's the titanic reference I'm flying okay we are officially in the car on the way to church that starts at 9 30 I think we'll get there like right on time that bird almost lost its life right there you see it flying past us it feels like it's literally been a full day already and it's only 9 22 a.m um but chad took noah out got a little reset fresh air was able to unload the groceries get mike addressed and just have a little quick moment and anyways I do want to answer one of your questions I will say there was like four frequently asked questions like predominantly asked and one of them was are you guys gonna get to see like the moment we actually found out that baby number three is a boy and this one was just a little bit different we filmed it for like an ig real not necessarily a youtube video and so it was really fun for us to do like the little lead up tease but at the same time our actual gender reveal came in two parts it was like first a letter and then a little thing and I will say we kind of low-key knew from the letter that it was a boy so we just didn't feel like it was like this grand huge reaction yeah it it was one of those things that not that it was deflating by any means but the the the sweet letter that was written by a very close friend of ours it just kind of alluded to and so as we and it was a beautifully long written letter and so we had kind of already started processing so when we did open the thing to find out yeah it was like of course you know this is what we saw happening yeah so we just thought it would be more fun to like create a fun reel and it'd be just like wow and I will say this is like the really really big question is there any gender disappointment we'll answer that after church so children's church didn't last the whole time tori has noah in there in the worship hall mike and i are playing in like the little kids area but there's a tv that'll play uh the sermon here shortly so we'll do the best we can right buddy are we doing the best we can yeah he was struggling poor little guy let's keep cleaning up buddy put more in that box good job okay we are on our way home from church we attempted to do kids church it did not it didn't happen about halfway through worship they were like ah which granted we've never left them before it was their first time and so i think we're just gonna have to do like little like okay let's do 10 minutes let's do 15 minutes let's see how this goes but what i noticed or what i think is happening is mike is very used to like if we have a babysitter or something them coming into like our space and so i've never really left him like in a different space that he's like not familiar with with new people and so i think that's what it was so we'll see we'll keep you posted but they ended up doing fine i just brought noah in with us and then chad was in like the kids room with micah but it's always just a blessing to be in his house i literally don't know what it was well i do it's the presence of the lord but i could not stop crying during worship this morning like literally tears were just streaming on my face the entire time sometimes i wonder if people are like is she okay totally okay just like happy worshipful tears but i was gonna answer that question but i think noah is about to need me to get in the back with him and so i'll answer that once we get home and get him down for a nap easiest little host church lunch because we did not have time to go out and get anything i'm back loving and drinking these so i'm gonna whip this up real quick while chaddy works on the sunday sunday okay a little update noah did fall asleep on the way home despite all efforts but he was so cute could not even be mad at it but i figured i would just sit here and chat with you guys for a minute while i eat this food answer the question i feel like as most ask most wanted to know which was did we experience any gender disappointment um with baby three being a boy and i do want to share a little story first so if y'all remember this when we flew to Turks and Caicos we knew that we were finding out the gender when we got there we got in immediately ran out to the beach literally still in our travel clothes in our sweats and we were greeted with the most beautiful double rainbow and i knew in that moment god was either telling me reminding me of when he spoke so clear to me don't worry your girl is coming and so in that moment i literally started crying because i was just like i felt god speaking to me again that same message like don't worry your girl is coming and i didn't know if it was confirmation like your promise has arrived like this is your girl or when you find out in the next couple of days that you're having another boy don't worry your girl is coming and so i never want to say gender disappointment but i was in total shock like i had so fully convinced myself that this baby was a girl because the pregnancy was so different it's been so easy i just really like thought this was a girl because it just felt so different and so it wasn't gender disappointment but it was shock and i did have to have like a moment to process and kind of like be like oh that like girly pinterest that i kind of low-key started pinning of what a girl nursery could look like or cute girl baby clothes like it's just a not yet and how beautiful that god has entrusted us with three little men to steward and so i'll say it wasn't just that initial like yeah like reaction like i maybe hoped i would have but i would say by the next morning i was there like once i had time to just like sit with god process it with god and get excited about the idea of three boys so close in age like now we are so over the moon so overjoyed literally cannot wait and bought these earrings the next day for my three little peas in a pod boys um and so yeah we're so excited and that that rainbow that story the way god spoke to me i just i have like this confidence and like a surety in my spirit that i know our girl will come and she is going to be so protected by all of her older brothers when that day does come and if baby four whenever baby four decides to arrive is that girl then i will share with you guys a picture that god gave me the night we found out that this was a baby boy but i don't want to share it just yet in case we have a fourth boy and then we're on number five before we get the girl which was one of y'all's questions will we just keep going until we get the girl and i do think we're at the point where we will just keep going until we get the girl um i there was a lot of messages i was also just like cracking up at how many of you were just like so so positive and so sure that this was a girl and y'all were commenting like y'all are making it so obvious that it's a girl and in my head i'm like y'all don't even know yet y'all gonna be shocked but anyways we're gonna wrap up this little video because i'm about to finish my food and take a nap with micah chad's gonna finish the sunday send and then he's gonna be packing up for his trip and stuff so we're just gonna have some quality family time but anything you want to share before wrap up babe um i'll say a little bit okay chad's gonna say a little something in three two one love you guys okay it's about i just finished writing the sunday send it'll go out in about 50 minutes 230 central time every sunday um if you're not subscribed i will put a couple links down in the description the first one will be a link to this newsletter specifically and this one is on um recovering your joyful expectancy of god's goodness that was a mouthful but it can be easy to um get jaded by life you go through hardship you feel like a prayer is unanswered everything happens and life is tough and it can feel like those things are building more of a wall between you and god rather than a bridge between you and god and so i'm writing on that i hope you like that but then the second link will be we also use our newsletter to create challenges so for example tori did a seven-day prayer challenge and so i'll put a link for you to sign up for that and it's you get an email every day for seven days and it's just a challenge to call you to prayer so these are some of the ways that we're using our time now that we don't have um wars and masters right now um and we're enjoying this season it's allowing us to have more quality time with our family and create additional different resources for you all but yeah so fun getting back a little vlog thank you guys for being here i'm excited for this retreat i haven't told you guys much about it but i'm going to montana to deal with some of the stuff that is actually in the newsletter so if you want to know more go check it out have a blessed day you know what i'm gonna do something fun i thought it'd be fun to do like a little like what they call it as a benediction but like speak a blessing over you all so i thought that would be fun may the lord bless you and keep you may the lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you may the lord turn his face towards you and to give you peace love you guys see you next time