Six Years!

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Kaius, you’re turning six this month and you are an amazing six year old!

It’s hard to believe that it was only six years ago that I went through 39 hours of labour (30 at home in a pool and 9 at the hospital), a csection, clothe diapers and 3.25 years of breastfeeding. Between now and then we’ve experienced blue boogers due to playdough being shoved up your nose, a popcorn kernel being removed from your ear by a specialist because the clinic couldn’t get it out, three stitches under your nose thanks to your enthusiasm for throwing water bottles up at the ceiling and looking up as the shards from the light fixture come down on your face, both arms going through a single pane window with not a scratch on you… twice, a visit to the ER in order to get your swollen foreskin back over your penis and various other scars from running in one direction while looking in another.

While you were five we’ve moved three times and it wasn’t easy for you, leaving the people you love and became so attached to.  The first few nights in all of our new places you would cry because you missed whoever we left at our old place.

I thought I might have been doing something wrong when I put you into Grade 1 after only six months of preschool, six months of Kindergarten and a summer off but you’re learning so fast.  You’re reading AND you like it! I can’t tell you how much that makes me smile. Going into Grade 1 only knowing how to print in all upper case letters, your teacher is impressed with how well you’re doing and so am I.

Your sense of humour blows me away, you love to have fun all the time and even though I get annoyed at times when it gets to be too much for me, I’m glad you’re this way because it would be WAY boring if you weren’t.

You’re polite and considerate of other, you usually share whatever you have with someone that doesn’t and you love to tell stories that make people laugh.

You love routine, which makes sense, most kids do and you are MY son

You love your dog so much that you tell me you don’t have a good nights sleep when she’s not sleeping with us and continue to prove it, mentioning it very first when you wake up even when it wasn’t the last thing we talked about before you went to sleep.

You randomly tell me you love me no matter who’s around which in turn gets a few ‘aaawwww’s’ out of pizza shop customers. You missed me so much when I was gone for 9 days you almost made me fall over when you came running to me after school the day I came back.

You love rough housing with Papa at the pizza shop and hanging with Gramma and the dogs at her place.  It’s great that you get to create these memories with them and be close to them.

You’ve invited 22 kids to your party this year after only living here for three months, your whole class (even the one that bosses you around) and your gang of friends from Gramma’s complex including a 9 year old and a 3 year old.

I hope you have a super fun time at your party!  I love you and I’m really proud of of you Stinker…

Happy 6th Birthday!!!