2 years old...
3 years old...
4 years old...
Five years old pictures are coming!
Today, you turned 5. Wow-you are so incredibly excited about being 5, even though tonight at bedtime you were already calculating when you would be six and then seven. Slow down-I'm not even used to you being five yet!
Jacob, there are tons more reasons than this, but here are 5 things I love about you!
1. Your smile and your hugs! They can turn any grouchy day into a happy one! (I know I'm putting two in for one, but I wasn't going to be able to keep my list down to just five)!
2. Your laugh...it's completely contagious and joyful!
3. Your imagination. God has such big plans for you, and knowing you, you'll come closer to imagining them than any of the rest of us could!
4. Your wholeheartedness. This is a hard one to describe with just that one word. But you are completely in whatever you are in at the moment! If you're happy, the world knows it. If you're angry, we can hear that, too! If you love someone, your amazing hugs will communicate it loud and clear. If you're not thrilled with someone, much to mommy's embarrassment at times, you're pretty open about that, too. If you're experiencing something, you're in it with your whole body. You could be a walking Nike commercial or something...you just do it. There is nothing cautious about you, which has caused me the white hairs I have and the scars you have. You just live life...more intuitively than even other children. I mean, you're only just turning 5. And you've been like this for forever. Yet there are sad, distracted people in this world paying big bucks to life coaches who instruct them to live the way you do...wholeheartedly. I love that about you. (Can you wholeheartedly be five, too, instead of wishing for six or seven or eight)? :)
5. Your love for God. You love His Word. You talk about Him. You think about Him. You're asking questions, always seeking to understand Him more. God loves that about you, too...and your life will be blessed because of it.
I love you, my medium-boy Jacob. I simply cannot imagine my life without you, and I would choose you again and again if given the chance! Happy birthday...enjoy being five!
2 comments:
Happy birthday Jacob!
I hope Jacob doesn't read this, but boy does he look like Anna in that 9 month photo!
I hope you all had a wonderful day!
It won't be anything he hasn't heard before! I wish I had earlier photos of him here, but you can definitely tell when I got my first digital camera!
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