January 26 and January 27

Today is Bruce's last day of being 9 years old...


Tomorrow he will be 10 years old and I am pretty sure I will officially feel old!


Here are some Bruce facts!
-4th grade
-A/B Honor Roll student
-Great Reader
-Can shoot a bow, throw a football and throw punches... and he does them all pretty well!
-He is friendly and doesn't know a stranger
-He went from getting in trouble everyday at school because of his attention span and talking to behaving everyday!
-Bruce has started to do laundry and other chores to help around the house more
 I could probably write for days at least to name all of the things that Bruce does and accomplishes, but I won't do that! I remember January 27 every year since 2005.
2005- Bruce was born after 13 hours of labor
2006- 1st birthday party, and he started walking shortly after
2007- 2nd birthday party at Ryan's and he started sleeping in a big boy bed!
2008- 3rd birthday, no party, just Matt, me and Bruce at Chuck-E-Cheese!
2009- 4th birthday party and I was due with Levi in 2 weeks (and now they have birthdays exactly 4 years and 2 weeks apart).
2010- 5th birthday, Matt was in Haiti, Poppi and Lolli came for their first visit to NC and the first birthday that we celebrated in NC.
2011- 6th birthday, he got money and started the Red Robin birthday tradition and themed birthday parties! We had a Cars party this year (and it was a joint party with Levi).
2012- 7th birthday and we celebrated with a dinosaur themed party Arkansas! Actually, 2 dino themed parties, 1 in AR and 1 in NC. We also did bowling and Red Robin!
2013- 8th birthday and we had a superhero party in Missouri and Red Robin before we traveled.
2014- 9th birthday, superhero party again, but in NC. Red robin on his birthday! And he prayed for snow for his birthday and got it! 2 weeks later Levi prayed for snow for his birthday and we got it then too!
2015- The first year since 2010 that we won't have a party, but I have other plans! :)


I was 18 when Bruce was born and I wouldn't recommend that to anybody, I would say to wait until marriage, however, in my situation that has already happened, I do not regret it for one minute! Having Bruce helped me to grow as a person, a Christian and become a great mother for him and eventually Levi. Bruce has always been the person to keep me on my toes, and his attention issues that we have dealt with this year has been no exception! I am so glad that I am his momma and he is our first born!




And to add, Bruce told me the other day that he was going to get married when he is 20 years old, which is only 10 years away now. I told him that he better get a job and start saving for it now! Why are the boys both in hurries to grow up??? I will remember to savor these next 10 years though, just in case!