As I was putting you down for bed tonight, I realized that I don't spend enough time just thinking about you. I spend a lot of time with you, but it's usually amidst the chaos that your brother and Daddy are creating around us. So now, as you sleep in your room next door to me, I just want to tell you how wonderful and perfect you are, and how lucky we are to get to share this life with you.
Besides your sweet, sweet personality, I love your crazy coloring. Your dad and I are blonde-haired blue-eyed people, and so is your big brother. But not you, with your orange hair and ice blue-gray eyes! Your eyes are the first thing that anyone comments on when they see you, and you just smile with your full grill as soon as someone starts to talk to you.
The second thing people comment on, after they get over your eyes, is how big you are. And sweetheart, you are big. We like to joke sometimes that you are our Jerry Springer baby, because, for the love of Pete, you are humongous! I also like to call you "beefy", "hefty", and "large and in charge". But you are totally proportionate, so don't sweat it. You started off in life at almost 11 lbs, so your size makes sense. When the docs sliced me open and pulled you out, everyone in the room started laughing about how big you were! And now, I have this perfect scar that is the length that they thought they would need to pull you out, but, like I said, you were a Gigantor-Beast, so I have this cool little ragged edge to the scar because they needed a little extra clearance to bring you into my life.
Besides all of that, though, I just love how happy you are. Everything makes you happy, and right now, I make you the happiest. And I am trying to savor this fact , because I know someday you will be All About Daddy, and that's okay. But for now, I am your sun and moon and stars. And you and Daddy and Carter are my universe.
Kiss kiss, Baby Garrett.
that was beautiful!
Posted by: cryitout | 08/10/2009 at 04:07 PM