Ready...set...GO!
I felt like the luckiest mom on the planet that I got to hang out with this adorable face and those big blue eyes every day of my life after he was born...just me and my boy (way back then when it was just the two of us).
I also remember being very, very nervous to be a mom.
When we left the hospital I remember thinking, "They're going to let us take him home?"
Then once we were home and he was sleeping peacefully in his room, I remember nudging Tim and whispering, "There's a baby in the other room!"
Fast forward to 2011: I'm not quite sure when we grew into parenting (I think we're still growing), but I'm thankful every day that I'm his mom and he's my boy.
Yes, thankful.
(Mostly)
Even through the teen years...
Even when every idea we have for fun on his birthday is "dumb,"
We have the best present ever planned for later, and I'm preparing myself that even though he'll be super excited on the inside, he won't show it on the outside.
But he'll be super, super excited. I just know it, and I can't wait.
And neither can he, but he can't show it...so he's sitting outside right now with headphones in his ears, pretending like it's just any other day.
Meanwhile he continues to grow into the witty, funny, quiet, wise person he is becoming.
The above pictures were when he was taking down shelves in a bedroom to get it ready to paint for Gabby to come home. Use a hammer on your sister's room? You bet!
And the number one rule: Don't laugh if the camera is pointed in your direction...but he loves hanging out laughing with these uncles. (And we're fairly certain that the same group pictured above won't be allowed back in Cabella's any time soon...that's all they'll tell us.)
Just taking it all in...
And I'm not sure what was going on here, but he always, always makes us laugh.
Happy birthday, kiddo!
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