It's so cool that Conner has so many people who love him! His mommy emailed me pics from her mom's camera, and they are great! (It's her ear in the picture!) I'm glad she and Cam's dad cherish Little Man like we do. He's a lucky boy!
Chris calls him "Tiny" and "Buddah".....I call him "Little Man" and all kinds of mushy names. Cam calls him "Buddy" and "Cutie". All of them fit--well, maybe NOT Buddah! :) We're going to have to call him Conner once in a while.
Tomorrow is Chris' birthday, and we're having the family over Sat. to celebrate his birthday and Nathan's (who got lost in the shuffle with Conner being born on 9/11--Nathan's birthday is 9/13.)
Christopher was my first little one, and our first to experience us as parents. I am so thankful we had so many good people in our life to give us advice and encouragment. Parenting is such a big responsibility and so full of joy, laughter, tears and fears. Most of our growing up was in the face of parental responsibility.
It's kind of hard to do all the things we are called on to do as parents and hang on to selfishness and immaturity--somehow we managed to do it sometimes, anyway. But overall, parenting brought us closer to God and to each other. Nothing bonds a husband and wife like staying up all night taking care of a sick baby....or staying up all night putting together toys with 152 moveable parts each on Christmas Eve.
Another bonding experience as parents: watching our children become parents....and each other become grandparents. Life is a such a priviledge! Thank You, God, for family! Thank you for making Don and me parents 31 years ago tomorrow!
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