Late Birthday Post

I am so overdue to post. I warned all of you that I wasn't ready for Fall!

This past Monday, September 3rd was my son's 9th Birthday. I can't believe my little boy is only a year away from double digits. He is such a big guy in body and for some time in words as well. Anyone who spends time with our family has been on the receiving end of one of my son's "isms" at least once.

But I have a hard time picturing him as much more than 4 or 5. I'm sure Poppy will enjoy that as he is fond of telling me that I baby him too much. I'm sure I probably do. It seems to be a family trait.

He is asserting his independence in many ways. He has become much more responsible with his things (although he is overdue for a room cleaning right now). He is walking home from school by himself every day. And just yesterday he and I argued because he doesn't want me to walk he and Natalie his little sister up to school every morning. He is trying to convince me to simply drop them off and let him walk her to the Kindergarten line. As responsible as I know he would be about that, it is simply not going to happen - sorry son! I enjoy our mornings too much to give them up just yet.

Even though I am late with this post, the birthday is ongoing. We are fond of "neverending birthdays" around here. We had dinner and cake for him last Sunday. We brought a cake to a Labor Day party on Monday and sang to him. Today we are going to Build-a-Bear Workshop and out to dinner and tomorrow we will have yet more cake and singing at Nana's. Truly neverending!

So, raise a toast or sing a little Happy Birthday to our handsome young man!