Simple Existence

I can’t believe that our baby is 10 years old today.  Time goes so fast.  The other night he really wanted to learn how to mow the lawn.  Deb helped him with the front yard and together, they did a great job.  He was so proud.

We tricked him with his birthday present.   Over the last couple of months, he has done a few things that made us nervous about getting him a new guitar.  I don’t want to digress here, but basically he needed to show us that he could take care of his things.  He kept asking when he might be able to get a guitar, and I kept tell him when he is about 13.  Yesterday, he reminded us of how good he has been doing at taking care of things.  We said how proud we were, and that it was too bad that we had already bought his present.  Maybe next year.

Oh, was he surprised this morning

Tonight we are having dinner with my side of the family, as today is my mom’s birthday as well.  Tomorrow, we are going have a party for our family of friends and Deb’s side of the family, and Saturday we are leaving for a week in New Mexico.   When we get back, he will celebrate his birthday with his birth grandma and aunt.  I love birthdays in our house.  We tend to drag them out over several days, sometimes weeks.