Yesterday~

I don't know how this has happened,

I just can't believe it.

But here we are,

Yesterday is gone.

He is much taller Today than Yesterday.

He likes to read, and actually requested two books for his birthday.

He loves history, and geography.

He has been reading my college textbooks on European history, Western Civilization, and U.S. History.

His tummy never seems to be full these days.

He loves football, and soccer, hockey and ESPN, and NASCAR.

He loves his DS, and Pokemon.
He is a GREAT big brother,
loved by both of his little brothers.

I just don't know where Yesterday went...

It seems like just yesterday:

I was sitting in the hospital,

holding my precious newborn,

watching George W. getting sworn in (the first time-) as President on the television.

It seems like just yesterday:

Tin Man and I would race up the stairs to be the one to change his diapers.

And to watch him sleep.

And to be the first one to get him up after his nap.

And to feed him.

And to cuddle him.

It seems like just yesterday:

He was two and a half at his first soccer class,

laying on the field, refusing to get up.

I remember thinking,

"Oh dear. This boy is never going to play a sport!"

It seems like just yesterday:

He insisted on riding Tonto,

 a huge black horse at a ranch we visited.

At the age of three, he had no fear of the giant beast.

It seems like just yesterday:

He was four and gave me a 'coupon'

saying he wished he could give me

"one million rabbits"

for Mother's Day.

It seems like just yesterday:

He learned to write his own name so wiggly,

He liked to line up his toy cars in a row,

and play with his trains  for hours.

It seems like just yesterday:

His little feet fit with room to spare in the palm of my hand.

But "Yesterday" has actually been ten years.
This week,

he's in double digits now.
He's ten.

With feet my size.

Happiest of birthdays to my first -of three- amazing blessings.

Love, Mom

Also known as

(...whose Tomorrow may include a nervous tick due to a 'Star Wars Movie Sleep Over'

with ten ten year old boys at our house tonight.)