Six years that flew by.

Well, my little boy is six years old today. I will say, like many other parents and grandparents out there, Where did the time go?! Little Bud is actually not all that happy today. He's not thrilled with school (or so he says), so he keeps complaining about having to go today. Of course he's fine once we get in the car and are on the way there. I'm sure he'll enjoy the cookies he is bringing to share with his friends, too!

This morning he helped me make his birthday cake. I'll frost and decorate it while he is at school. We are going to have Jack's pizza for dinner, his favorite, and he's going to have his own order of mozzarella sticks (which will probably be the only thing he eats, but what the heck, it's his birthday!). We're planning a little party for him for next weekend. I feel badly; the poor boy gets a little left out in the party planning department. Somehow, having the birthday celebration at my MIL's over Memorial Day means that I sometimes forget to really do up something good for the Boy for his actual birthday, hence the lateness of actually planning the party for next weekend.

It's hard to believe that six years ago right now I was at the hospital, with just me and the labor nurse, wondering if my parents were going to get to the hospital in time for them to take Little Bug so my hubby could be with me for the birth. Luckily, they were; the nurse saw them out the window hurrying across the hospital parking lot, and soon after that my sweetie was with me to see his son born. I remember the nurse telling me that I was doing do well I should have eight babies! Ha! No way! No more back labor for me, thank you very much! But I adore the two beautiful children we have, and am constantly amazed that they were once so small. In some ways it seems like yesterday, and in some ways it feels like it was a lifetime ago. And it was - their lifetimes!

The last six years have flown by, and now my little Bud is a big boy, and a sweetheart. Now I need to go hustle him off to school! Happy Birthday, little man. I love you.