Happy Birthday Aaron
Posted on June 29th, 2008 in Personal Messages | No Comments »
A letter, of sorts, to my son:
So this morning, at 7:42 AM, you turned three. That is huge. It is like an entire 1 more than 2. You are all growed up, at least as far as a three year old can be, and are all kinds of big boy now. Yet is still feels like just a few days ago that you were born.
Today was a weird but special day for you. Through an odd scheduling snafu mom scheduled a day out with Yolanda today. That meant that you, me and all the girls would be home today while mom was out wine tasting. Except, at the very last minute this morning your momma decided that she was not healthy enough to drive herself to Millbrae so she asked me to take her. Which meant all of us were going for an early morning drive this morning.
Momma threw you all in the truck (figuratively of course) and we headed to Millbrae. We dropped mom off and Greg invited us over to his house for breakfast (actually, he invited us out to breakfast but since you and your sisters were hastily rushed out of the house this morning all of you were in your jammies and none of you had shoes). Breakfast was awesome and you and Preston had a great time playing around the large open living room at their house. We stayed there for a good while and finally got home around 1:15.
About 15 minutes later auntie Katie showed up to wish you a happy birthday and she ended up treating us to lunch. We came home, ate, talked, ate some more, played and ate some more. Then Auntie Katie had to go because we had to go get some stuff for your cake tonight. Since mom was not here all day she wanted to be able to do cake with you tonight. But we needed a cake and some toppers to go on it. Which is why we went out to get that stuff.
We got home right around 4:30 or so. I put a movie on for you guys while I got the coals ready for steaks. I got dishes washed and everything ready to cook and got to it. While I was cooking you and Alaynah were playing out in the yard. Playtime seemed to go on forever for you two, but it actually ended at about 6:00 when we had dinner. A little while later mom got home.
Just after that we had your rainbow cake with Diego toppers and “A” and “J” candles. It was awesome. We got you wired on all sorts of buttercream frosting then turned you lose on the front room to open your presents. You got a pretty big kick out of most of them, playing with the little spirally Go Diego Go car slide. In fact, you played with that up until it was bedtime.
Which is why I am writing this so late. You see, in the hubbub of what was your birthday I had no time at all to even tell you happy birthday here. So I am taking this time, after you are asleep and after I have taken a shower (because Lord knows I needed one). I just want to tell you again son… Happy birthday. I love you and I am glad that God chose to bless me with your existence in our family.
You are an amazing kid. You learn incredibly fast, you are very smary naturally and you are all boy. I love watching your maleness come screaming out of you as you develop into a little boy. You are already well on you way to that and I am certainly glad that I get to be a part of that with you. So today son, as you sleep off the effects of a very busy Sunday, I just want to let you know again how much I love you and how glad I am that you had a happy birthday.