Noah,
My handsome little three year old. Happy happy birthday to
you!
Three years ago you came into our lives and changed it all.
Your Daddy and I were so young and felt so unprepared. And then we saw your
face. We heard your cry. We held you in our arms. And then it was all so clear.
We were meant to be together. Me, Daddy and you. We became a family and we
became whole. God had this planned from the start and I am so grateful to him
for that.
I realize now why mamas everywhere on their children’s
birthdays say reminiscing things like “On this day X number of years ago, I was
bringing you into the world.” It’s because it will always feel like it was
yesterday, whether you replace that X with 3 or 33 years. Every year on this
day for the rest of my life, I will relive the power and emotion of that
experience.
Truly it feels like just yesterday I was holding your tiny,
pink body against mine. I was delirious with love and a little shock that all
of those months of anticipation and planning had come and gone so fast. You
have changed everything about me, my little monster. I move and act and think
differently since you were first laid in my arms. I have more purpose behind my
reasons and more motivation to my actions.
I have watched you grow from an infant, to a baby, to a
toddler in what feels like a single breath. Every new stage you keep us
laughing and guessing and entertained. What a joy you are to your father and I
as a son and to Aria as a role model and big brother.
I am so proud of your creativity and energy and the way you
are already welcoming and engaging the world around you. You are so lovely in
your smallness, in your brave spirit, and in the sweetness of your heart.
Here’s to three years of this beautiful life, Noah David. On this very day
three years past, in the bright summer afternoon, I was bringing you into the
world - and it was the start of everything.
I can’t wait for the gift of this next year with you. and
the one after that. and a lifetime of watching you become. The whole world is
yours for the taking and I have no doubt that’s exactly what you’ll do.
I love you with my entire being,
Mama
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