Happy 4th Birthday Beautiful Boy!!

Oh Milo ~ it just doesn’t seem possible that you are turning four years old! I mean, wasn’t it just yesterday that I held you for the first time after dreaming of you for eight long years? Wasn’t it just yesterday that you graced this world with your beautiful soul and made us a mommy and daddy? I remember very clearly the moment I saw you enter this world and how much I fell in love with you in that very second. YOU are the one we waited so long for and there is SO much to love about you. I try to capture “who” you are each year around your birthday and I never feel that words convey what a blessing it is to witness your life, but here goes……

The way you LOVE Ninjago with a passion and how you’ve been so excited about your Ninjago costume birthday party for a LONG time, , the way you taught yourself how to ride your bike without training wheels right after your 3^rd birthday, the way you say “come ON mom” with a teenager attitude, the way you think mommy is also “the boss” of daddy, the way you have called us Matt and Sweets for months now, the way you carry on conversations with yourself or your toys that show what a huge imagination you have, the way you know you grew in Heidi’s tummy and the way you “deliver” babies all day long for me to take care of, the way you love to go outside and play with your neighborhood friends every afternoon, the amazingly impressive way you can play video games, the way you ask me all day long “can you pay wis me?”, the way you think that once you turn four you’re automatically going to grow big and tall enough to ride a motorcycle all by yourself, the way you love your preschool teacher Mrs. Richardson, the way you want a “rock & roll” room which means you want guitars and peace signs, the way you constantly remind me that until you’re ready to do something mommy should just sit back and wait, the way you’re learning how to dribble the basketball, the way you bat left handed, the way you tried to play on a soccer team but it just didn’t work out, you’re infatuation with trophies, the way you ask “why not” ALL DAY LONG, the way you beg me to be the “kissy fonster” and then love to wipe all my kisses off, the heartmelting way you will wake up in the middle of the night to say “mama, I lub you”, the way you want to be just like your daddy, the way you told me that you decided when you get big you want to work construction and work for the power factory that blows lots of steam, the way you love to work with your tools, the way you want to help with everything, your crazy good coordination skills, the way you know your whole name and the way you say your first one “Mallow”, the way you walk different when you’re thinking you’re really cool, the tender way you love babies, the way you want to cuddle a little bit more than last year, the way you love to play with your cousins, the way you can now walk along side the cart for short trips and you think that’s really cool, the way if I tell you something has corn in it…you put it back, the way you LOVE to bring me flowers…no matter whose yard you have to pick them out of, the way you say “ya, sure” if something sounds really cool but you don’t want to act TOO excited about it, the way you are ALL ABOUT DADDY as soon as he gets done working, the way you say “I lost my home” when we’re driving and you don’t know where we are, your amazingly keen sense of direction, your LOVE of shaving cream, your love of candy, the way you’re starting to be interested in stories, the obsession you have with brushing your teeth…or more specifically toothpaste, the way you like to take a shower by yourself because you’re a “big boy”, the way you ask daddy to “get those things off your face” (whiskers), the way you love to play slap jack, the way you HATE losing but we’re working on that, the way you just can NOT stand still to get dressed no matter what, the way you say you “need to put your dress on” because I say let’s get “dressed”, the way you save every single penny you get but don’t want to spend any on the toys you want, the way you say “it’s so bery special to me” if there’s something you don’t want to share, the way you figured out how to pop a wheelie on your bike going up the curb, the way you love cheeseburgers from In and Out and call it a “hangabur”, your beautiful sparkley eyes and your smile that lights up the world, the way you suddenly have to go potty any time you’re in time out, the way you incessantly talk about “poop”,the way you can go from passed out sleeping to 100 mph within a second,your LOVE of Scooby Doo movies ….especially the Vampire one, the way you cast sleeping spells on us that you learned from the Vampire Scooby Doo movie, the way you remember EVERYTHING, that fact you still love Tinker Bell, the way you think every word that starts with an “M” says Milo, how you love to dress up in your costumes….especially Kai, the way you love to sing and hum and how you can hear a tune once and repeat it on your own, the way you love and need to know “who’s birthday next?”, how you overcame your fear of swimming lessons and learned to SWIM all by yourself without wings, the way you LOVE soobies (smoothies), the way you say “THAT’S not right” while laughing if something sounds silly, how you still need and want your monkeys for comfort and sleeping, the way you are so interested in figuring out how everyone in the family relates to one another (ie Papa is mama’s daddy) and what their names are…..and why some people have a different last name than you do but they are still your family, the way you call your cousins your “brothers”, the way you say “mama don’t TALK a me like dat” when I say something stearn because that’s what I say to you when you’re being sassy, the way you want daddy to play power rangers with you almost every night, the way you find JOY in just about everything you do and how that joy radiates from your sweet soul. We have SO much to learn from you my beautiful boy ~ out of all the little boys in the world….how did we get so lucky to find YOU!

Happy 4^th Birthday to YOU….Our dream come TRUE!!!!!!