before he was born, for this, now ten year old boy. The doctor said, I can see that it is a boy, but I cannot see the other hand. Aren't you worried about that? No, I said, I know where the other hand is. He is my child, he has his fingers in his mouth. Sure enough, he did. He never really cried, he just stuck his fingers in his mouth and I think that he was born with the fingers in the mouth.:) I had lost all or most of my serotonin by that time and couldn't sit in the car or go through tunnels from the early part of that pregnancy through this day. I was the oldest mother in the hospital with him. 37? That seemed like being so old. Grandma Ruth was the pregnancy test for him. I came to the house and she was cooking ham and I walked right outside and thru-up all over the back yard. She said its a boy. I said Gram, I am not pregnant, she said yes you are, and now we are here. I guess I was.
We have been through all kinds of things together. He has very thick glasses and has broken a bone and has loved to read and write stories like his mommy. We were working on a book parallel to AA Milne's "When We were 6", when he was 6 and now he's 10. Do you think that we will ever finish? The things that thrilled him at 6 are so boring now. Time flies when you are having fun.
If we start the book when we were 10 right now, maybe I will finish by the time he is 20. Last year, the story was about Indiana Squirrel and getting free of the sibling directives. Not now. Now he is an independent fellow. Everyday I say where is Ethan. He is usually somewhere else on the block. I am so glad that I got to know him before now, or I would never meet him. He is launched already.
Jack Prelutsky is his favorite author and we laugh and laugh at some of the grotesque and silly things that Jack puts out there. We are a couple of wordaholics, Ethey and I. I am so glad that I have one wordy child. Dad and I used to have jokes and enjoyments from the written word.
The boy who we were worried about with tv falling on him and a mom who has been in and out of the hospital and who broke his arm within months of being down here is now in the double digits. It has been an awesome and wonderful part of the ride.
>My Ethan Baby
10 years old!
Ten years ago today, we didn’t know who you were.
10 years ago today, you were a mystery.
The sweetness of your smile.
The Funny things you say and do.
What a bright boy, you have become.
We used to read together, When we were…6,7,8,9
Now you are 10, 10, 10.
A decade years old.
This, first decade was a whopper.
You jumped on the scene with all of the power and strength of every other Walker man that I have ever known.
Grandma Ruth smiled ever so wide to see your little face. Grandpa Bob and My Dad were 60 and 80 years, your senior, almost to the day.
You were wished for. Exactly one year earlier, I saw cousin Ton,Ton and I kissed him and said, Oh my, oh my I want another one and you were more than I ever imagined that day. What a wish!
Take me half way across the sky. You have stretched me past my wildest dreams in having and knowing you and seeing your tremendous contribution to the family.
I do expect great things from you!
We were waiting, we were watching, you surprised us,
by your comforting,.
It was lonely, only 4 of themJ We were looking for someone special to love and God reached inside and sent us you. He did ,
Took us halfway, across the sky, Out where the hope is growing, we keep knowing why.
God is in charge. He gave us you. The precious picture of his love is here in view.
You’re impulsive and considerate,
You are helpful and sometimes obstinate,
We can trust you with responsibilities,
We see that you are the boy, we know is filling our hearts with love and precious peace.
Take me half way across the sky, You stretched my wildest dreams of only you and I
We went halfway across the sky, To catch a glimpse of God’s love beaming from your eyes.
By the way, the fingers are out of the mouth now!Ethan's Blog
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