Abundant Blessings: Happy Birthday to my First Born (only one day late)

Happy Birthday Leighton! I cannot believe that you are 6 years old! I spent most of the day Tuesday recounting the story of how my water broke during a meeting at school...blah, blah, blah....by the time you are old enough to read this I am sure you will have heard the story so many times you could write it word for word...but I still enjoy telling it....I just can't believe it has been 6 years since then. You are the light of my life. I have been head over heels in love with you from the fist time I laid eyes on you. From the moment of your entrance into the world (after 3 hours of pushing and with eyeballs that would have probably scared you to death had you been able to distinguish them - not that I am bitter or anything)you have been nothing but a blessing. You have a love for life that cannot be matched. You are so inquisitive. You ask questions about everything...always have. This year, just in the past few months, you have begun to mature into a boy, no longer the chubby cheeked baby that I long to rock...although you do still let me hold you and rock you, much to your daddy's dismay. Just the other day your daddy and me were talking about something you were doing and he said to me, "He is growing up." And in that moment, I wanted to burst into tears!!!! From pride, from joy, from happiness, from heartbreak, from devastation....it just goes by too fast! We are so proud of you...so thankful that God chose to give us you.....right now, this is what is going on in your world....
* You are smitten with baseball. This is your first year to play and you love everything about it...and you are very good....really, you are....I am not just saying that because you are my son....you have great strength in your throwing and exceptional accuracy. It is fun to watch you be a part of a team for the first time.
* Right now you have your first loose tooth...STILL! It is barely hanging on and the tooth behind it...that should be where it is...is almost half-way in. The thought of pulling it terrifies you....but I have a feeling that all will change once you loose this one and realize lost tooth equals money...you LOVE money.
* You are a terrific reader. And you LOVE to read...you are your mama's boy. You read EVERYTHING and what you can't read, you sound out. It is fascinating watching you figure it all out.
* We CANNOT fill you up....you eat so much and you eat all the time! Your favorite is probably pizza but you are also a sucker for some McDonald's chicken nuggets and Zaxby's Nibblers. But you eat pretty much EVERYTHING that I can come up with at home....if this is any indication of how you will eat as a teenager, I should probably look into a second job!

(I will still post pictures of our bowling birthday but I have only one picture from the actual DAY...one measley picture..after I put candles in his egg sandwich for breakfast, ate lunch with him at school, took him to eat at Mizu's....one measley picure....I was just caught up in enjoying the reality of it, I guess.....and a confession.....I staged this picture...it wasn't even on the real day. Can I blame it on 6 years of mommy brain?)

From March 24, 2004