Tuesday, May 21, 2013

To My 9 Year Old Boy

Dearest Birthday Boy Bentley!

Happy 9th birthday!! I love celebrating you so much. You are fun and happy and witty and handsome and sweet and so very wonderful. I'm the luckiest mom to get to have you as my boy!

This has been such a grand year—as you get older you just get better and braver at everything! Some examples: water-skiing for the fist time in Powell, zip-lining through the haunted woods with Dad, trying all kinds of food and eating way more exotic things than I ever do :), riding fast and far on your bike, running your first full 5K and making your first basket during a b-ball game.

I love your sense of adventure and discovery—makes you Dad's perfect buddy for all sorts of things. I love your creativity and incredible mind and how you use them often as you learn, build, and play. I love your happy smile and all your crazy faces and your long, lean legs. I love your Lego ships which span the entire room and your daily basketball practice out front. I love your tender heart and your friendship with your sisters and how you love to kiss and rub Luke's soft head a hundred times a day (I do too :)

Thank you for being my stellar oldest child and for loving all of us in this family so completely. Thanks for making me beyond happy from the very first moment I met you and for making me laugh so much every day since. You are an amazing kid and such a good example to all your sibings of being obedient, dedicated, kind and helpful. I love you forever darling boy!

--Mommy



2 comments:

Heidi said...

Bentley is a good kid and Also max's pseudo older brother. Hope his day was great!

Anonymous said...

Precious letter.