Another Year For Gideon

Well, Gideon’s 2nd year of life has already started off with a bang.

On Sunday morning before church, he broke an arrow key button off my computer (and it’s not popping back on), and just this morning, he took a pen (don’t know where he found it) and wrote all over the covered footstool of the rocking chair. I don’t even know how to begin to get that off. He threw himself kicking and screaming on the floor when I put the broom away because he wanted to “weep.” And as I type, he’s thrown my pillows on the floor, laid on top of them to go “night, night” and pulled out a pacifier from under my bed and popped it in his mouth before I could get it. Who knows how long it’s been under there and how much dust it has collected.

I guess I could go on with the stories, especially how, a few days before his birthday, I’d put his presents from his Grandma Pam in the middle of the table where he couldn’t reach. I went upstairs to collect dirty diapers and when I came back down, I found him sitting in a chair, opened presents in hand, attempting to put his new clothes on over the clothes he was wearing.

I know all of this is perfectly normal behavior for a child his age, but when it’s the oldest child who is charting the waters for the rest, it just exhausts me.

I do love the spontaneity of his affection, though…how he sees me come in a room and runs to jump in my arms and give me the biggest “squeezey” around my neck that his little strength can muster. I love how he loves everyone, waves hello to people even if they don’t see him, and brings smiles to others’ faces with his little antics.

Here's a little photo/video collaboration of his birthday morning.

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