Wow...its hard to believe that it was four years ago that I sat in a hospital bed utterly exhausted, on some levels "traumatized" and on every level, completely and totally in love--a love that no one could have ever explained to me and that I never had known before. What a gift--God blessed us beyond our wildest dreams with an amazing, sweet, precious baby boy. Its hard to believe that the "baby" years are over--that the little, little boy years too have passed so quickly. All to fast our little boy is growing up--being shaped and molded. It is our prayer daily that he is molded in God's image and not ours, nor our cultures, nor his peer's.
Logan, we love you more than life itself. You are truly one of the greatest blessings of our lives. These are a few of the things that we don't ever want to forget about you at "4."
-You love life--your excitement for everything around you is infectuous.
-You are a minimalist--I ask if you want two of anything--candy, cookies, toys and generally you answer "no, just one is fine"
-You love school and learning and drawing and letters and numbers and reading for hours
-You are still so painfully shy
-You have to have socks on to sleep and no socks on to play
-You get excited by anything new-new socks, new shoes, new clothes, new toothbrushes, new toothpaste, your very own bar of soap I gave you last week, truly...
-You ask to talk every night before you go to bed
-You love your baby sister and always want her with you or watching you
-You wipe off your Annie's kisses, but always keep your Auntie's
-You refuse to give kisses to your Gammie and Gumpy
-You never forget to kiss your mommy goodnight
-You always run to mommy to give me a kiss and a hug if you see me at school
-After a day at school, I ask "How was your day?" You say "Good. How were your kids, mommy?"
-You get angry when you get scared
-You try so hard to please Mommy and Daddy and praise is such an effective reward
-You really like blue Airheads, but you call them "bumper heads"
-You are so particular--you HATE crooked socks, your routine is very rigid and "orderly"
-You have such a servant heart--you love to help vacuum, to change the laundry, to help me cook, to help Daddy with any project, to get sister's binkie or burp rag or anything
-You are the most tender hearted little boy--you cry when your sister is hurt or when she is crying for "too long" in your opinion because it makes you sad
-You are an amazing athlete--you can score a goal in basketball, you can hit a homerun over the fence or house, you can throw a perfect spiral, you can throw a hard ball, you can hit your golf balls over the back fence, you can hit a perfect backhand with a tennis raquet. Any sport that you try, you excel at. We love to watch you.
-You love watching movies and then asking every question you can think of about it
-You think that cartoon animals are real and can really talk
-Your imagination has completely taken off--you love to roll play with your animals and dinosaurs.
-You love to say, "What would (so and so) say if..." ie: What would my friends say if I wasn't at school?
-You have such a special, one of a kind bond with your "Auntie"
-You love to play "look our below" on our bed
-You love to play in our closet
-You are becoming braver every day, although we still have a ways to go
-You LOVE Saturday morning donut dates with your daddy
-You love going to the deer lease and sleeping in the trailer
-You love Maddie and go outside to "love on Maddie" often
-You take your water gun outside to "shoot" the neighbor's dog "Harry" when he comes for a visit
-You named our neighbor's dog "Harry" even though his name is Cedric
-You feed Maddie every morning
-You obey amazingly well for a 4 year old
-You love to be with friends
-You love to eat at a restaurant, but get so sad if a friend isn't going to be there
-You still look for airplane's in the sky, long horns in the field, the baby foal at the paint horse stable, colts at the horse farm and any other animals that you can see along a drive
-You shop wonderfully, as long as there are some animals for you to look at at the store
-Your favorite place is the zoo
-Playing on your top bunk is a wonderful "treat"
-You cry when we leave friends houses if you haven't had warning time, but you are getting much better
-You don't like "Finding Nemo" because Nemo gets lost from his Daddy
-You keep telling me, "I want to watch that part because I like it" if you are scared of part of a movie
-You play so well by yourself
-You always tell others to "Be Careful" and you are constantly concerned when others are not following the "rules" or are doing something that could hurt them--it totally stresses you out
There are SOOOO many other things about you that we love. We cannot thank God enough for the amazing gift of you. Mommy and Daddy love you so much!
.JPG)
