Birthday Boy

You turned 10 this past week. I cannot believe you are in the double digits! You, on the other hand, remind me daily that you will be a teenager in 3 more years and cannot wait to drive a car! I am perfectly content to enjoy your boyhood for a little longer. You are such a happy child. You are always coming up with imaginative things to do, create, invent, or investigate. Your mind is your playground. You don't need toys as you can invent a game out of a Popsicle stick and some tape. :) You are also very eager to start your own business. You have tried to sell vegetables in our front yard, (this was hard since we live at the end of a private drive in the middle of nowhere). You have tried having your own barbershop and even practiced you hair cutting skills on your sisters dolls, with her permission of course. I was just glad it wasn't your sisters you practiced on! Your latest idea was an oil changing center. This came about after you helped me change the oil in the car. I watched as your enthusiasm grew with this idea and you came up with the price to charge people and informed me very seriously that YOU would collect and keep the money as this would help you in math and counting money. :) Never once did you speak of the work involved though so I am only assuming that I would be YOUR employee and would be doing all the work. :) I often wonder if you will be an entrepreneur when you grow up. Although your mind changes on a daily basis of what you want to be when you grow up. Everything from a truck driver like your daddy to a train engineer to a scientist. The world awaits you my son. You are wonderfully made and I pray that you will indeed be whatever the Lord leads you to be. He has given you so many wonderful talents and gifts that I can only begin to imagine how you will use them. Until then I will sit here and watch you fly around the house with your mind going a mile a minute and your imagination soaring to vast heights that the others can only barely touch. You bring such enjoyment to our house. You are always ready to ham it up and enjoy making other laugh. You are our in-house comic.< >


I am so glad that you are still that sweet boy that everyone always comments to me on. You have a wonderful heart and care so much about others feelings. (Unless one of your sisters gets on your last nerve, then you may not be as caring as usual.) I love that you still love to snuggle, enjoy my hugs and kisses and tickles too. I will miss all this as you get older. I know that one day that snuggle will be our last as you will become too "big" and "grown" to snuggle with your mom. Until then I will enjoy the bouquets of flowers you pick me, the fresh strawberries you seek out for us, and all the other fun times we have together. I love you son!