Here he is, three weeks early...
...13 years ago.
His Daddy wasn't quite ready he said, he still needed to get a few things done at home and at work before our son arrived.
Our son had other plans...
...13 years ago.
We brought him home and placed him in his bed in the room across the hall from ours and he looked so tiny in that great big crib so...
...we scooped him up and snuggled him into our room, to a smaller bed where he stayed for the next few months,
13 years ago.
He transformed us from a young married couple to a
...FAMILY...
...13 years ago.
We've had a blast learning how to be his parents, we two, who grew up with only sisters, began our family with a son.
A son who taught us all we'd ever need to know about trucks, bulldozers, tractors, combine harvesters, & dinosaurs.
A son who survived as my first kitchen student...
...who patiently endured as we learned how to take care of another human,
...and who was such a good sport when he became a big brother just after celebrating his first birthday!
Eventually, our baby boy hit two years old and oh what fun! We'd soaked in those baby years and we settled in, ready to enjoy his preschool years.
And then I blinked.
...and not believing what I saw...
...I blinked once more...
...and, oh my...
I feel a bit now, like his Dad did on the day he was born, 13 years ago. I'm not quite ready...there are a few more things I'd have like to have gotten done...
Everyone tells you, when your children are little, not to blink, that it goes by so quickly, and that you'll miss "these days". As a young parent, you are sleepless and weary of changing diapers and are longing for the day when your precious babies can feed themselves and stop spitting up all over you, you really don't believe that the days will ever go quickly. You also can't imagine that you'll ever, ever miss this season in your life.
And then you blink...
Happy 13th Birthday Cole,
I'm so thankful God gave you to us, 13 years ago.
What an awful lot you've taught us in the blink of an eye,
how much more we get to learn together as we head on, into future's adventure!
*Image credit: Megan Wright
2 comments:
Yea, just stop blinking . . . you have done an excellent job teaching that young man ( and he has been from the time he was 3) grow into the caring and loving 13yr old he is today. Those adjectives do not fit the majority of thirteen year old males of this day and age. BUT oh my, how perfect for my oldest Grandone. Do you realize how many blinks there are between "birthday" and lets just say 40. . . I Love you so, Mom
Wow!! 13!! The last picture just entirely sums up his whole b-day. :)
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