Sunday, July 8, 2012

Dear Ethan

My sweet boy.  Here we are, on the day before your 2nd birthday.  It's so amazing that two years has gone by.  Two years since your beautiful spirit entered the world.  Since your gorgeous blue eyes, dimple chin, and heart of gold became a luxury I could enjoy and appreciate every day.  I am so lucky to have you.

You really are an incredible kid.  You are the sweetest, most loving little guy I know.  This is your personality and your biggest blessing.  How lucky you are that you were born this way.  As your mama I think about these things all the time -- what it will take for you to have success and happiness in your life.  So many things contribute to that, but what might be the most important is a good personality.  And at 2 years old, you have this category checked off.  What a beautiful blessing!

You are wonderfully friendly.  You say "hi" with a wave and a big smile.  But it's really to people who you know and like, so it's not to just anybody.  When people leave, you say bye with emotion and depth.  I love this about you! It's special and such a nice quality to have.

You love to laugh.  You are a happy boy.  It's easy to make you happy and you exude happiness so it feels good from every perspective.  You find joy in almost everything we do.

You have such a good heart.  For the most part, you always say sorry if you hurt someone.  You say please and thank you, many times unprompted.  It's pretty amazing for such a little guy!

And how could I forget.  You LOVE Cars.  I mean love.  It's so funny to think that as an infant and toddler you had Maya's toys to play with... strollers, dolls.  And you were the best stroller-pusher ever!  But then one day you learned about cars, and that was it.  Cars-obsessed!  I don't think anyone even tried to teach you about cars, you just got into them on your own.  The difference between boys and girls I guess.

Love you sweet boy.  Love you to the moon and back and I absolutely adore you.  Happy birthday!

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