My sweet little guy,
In the morning you will wake up and be “halfway to an adult” as you like to say even though I keep telling you being an adult isn’t very much fun 😛 I can hardly believe how fast these nine years have gone by – I can close my eyes and remember the day you were born like it was yesterday. While a part of me is sad that your baby and toddler years are long gone, I am so so proud of the young man you are growing up to be. You are so incredibly smart and inquisitive – you blew through second grade with straight A’s while taking drum classes, doing taekwondo and playing soccer and baseball. Your baseball team won the championship this year and you improved so much this season. You are a happy kid – always smiling and singing and for the most part you are a great big brother. You and Ellie butt heads at times but mostly because she wants to be in the middle of whatever you are doing. You are protective of her and she just lights up when she sees you at school – she is so proud to be on campus with you and Abby this year. You love to write, create and build – I am always finding books you are writing or drawings you’ve done in your school folder and you love building legos and creating things out of boxes and things you find. I joke that you are my junk collector but honestly I think it’s really cool what you imagine up in that head of yours. I just wish you wouldn’t pull things out of the trash and bring them home 😉
Pokemon, nerf guns, video games and all things Marvel top your favorite things these days. You spend hours organizing and trading pokemon cards with your friends and love going to Dave & Busters to collect Marvel cards from the game there. You love watching movies and having game nights especially with Dada – you two are definitely the best of friends. Riding your scooter, hanging at grandma’s and playing with your cousins also tops your list of fun. You love to read as well and while I should encourage you not to read so late I actual love finding you reading in bed with your book light like I used to do every night at your age. Watching you grow and change has been the greatest joy of my life – I can’t wait to see who you will grow up to be and what you will do with your talents. But I do hope these next nine years go by just a little slower.
Happy Birthday to the boy who made me a mama and makes me so proud every day. Dada and I love you to the moon and back.
-Mama
once again you weren’t super cooperative for your birthday pics so there’s just a couple – the weird poses were your idea and I promised I would use them 😛
