Tomorrow is my youngest son's 5th birthday. I can't believe it! His preschool does this thing on their birthdays where the parents come in and bring pictures and talk about your child's life story...a story for each year. So I was digging through old pictures to find some. I am going to take in his scrapbook from his first year of life and I found some other pictures since then. I found some of me while pregnant and one of them is of me at the front door leaving to go to the hospital to get induced and meet my son for the first time! I remember that day so vividly!
Joshua had his 5th birthday party yesterday at the gymnastics place. So much fun! All of his best friends were there, and they got to run around for 2 hours! What could be better than that? He was having so much fun, he even passed on his own birthday cake! He said he wanted to go jump some more on the trampoline, so off he went! Is he my child? No cake? Especially when it's your own cake! He decided last night after the party that he wanted some! So he did get to enjoy his yummy cake.
January 14th, while wonderful because of my son's arrival into the world, is also a sad day. The year before Joshua was born, our dog Syndey died on January 14th, 2007. She was Dave's and my first baby! I was so sad when she died. I cried for months. She was such a quirky, sweet and entertaining dog. But I believe that God gave me Joshua a year later, on the same day, to make up for taking Sydney from me when she was only 7.5 years old. I was supposed to be induced on January 15th, but I developed pre-eclampsia (what's new?) and my blood pressure was going up and my kidneys weren't behaving, so they moved up my induction date to January 14th.
Joshua is seriously the coolest kid. He is the perfect mix of happy, smiley, funny, animated, silly, smart, athletic and friendly. He can do simple math addition problems (it blew my mind when I first saw him do it!) and he can write all of the letters of the alphabet and he can also identify all of the letters of the alphabet. He's in Pre-K! So crazy to see him learning this stuff already!
I'll leave you with a funny comment he said at his birthday party yesterday: all of the kids were sitting at the tables eating pizza at his birthday party, and he says out of the blue "Yeah, I'm just sitting here talking with my friends at my 5th birthday party."
I laughed out loud (literally!) and I was like, "How old are you?!?! 5 or 77?!
God, I love that kid. Thank you for letting me be his mama!
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