HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANIEL!!!

Good Morning!!

I'm dedicating my blogging post today to our youngest son, Daniel James!!

Today is his birthday!! Seems like he should still be little, as all our grown children do.. You all know what I'm saying! Their growing years go by so very fast!! Before you know, you're an empty nester and you sit wondering where all those years went!! I do this with each one of our grown children.. as I'm sure you all have experienced doing this same thing too.

As I sit here pondering over the years that have gone by, I recall how it came about that we told your brother Jamie that WE were pregnant! Your dad and I were shopping at Wal Mart's and just so happened to linger into the maternity section, and Jamie says... why are we looking in here?? Then, it hit him that WE were going to have a baby!! Talk about being excited!! He was jumping up and down all over the place, saying, "Mom's having a baby"!!
I can still hear his voice echoing that phrase!! Michele was very excited too when we told her that WE were having a new baby!!

When the day came for you to be born, Jamie had to wait outside in the waiting room while dad was in the room with me. Your brother must have worn a spot off the carpet walking the floor, waiting for you to be born. After you were born, they had the little blue hat on your head and they pushed the bed over by the window where one could peek into the room, and he got to see both his Mom and new baby brother! Such a grin he had on his face knowing he had a baby brother!! I told Jamie that if we had a boy, we'd name his middle name after Jamie, and if we had a girl, her name would be Danielle, after Michele...
Michele wasn't able to be with us at this time, as she was staying with her real father and his wife and finishing up her senior year at school... How very bad she wanted to be with us at this time though!! She was in Ohio seeing you, Jamie, Dad & I just days after you were born! She was so tickled and loved you right from the very first time she saw you too!!

Gosh, then the years came and went by so quickly, and now, here we are, in 2010, your 25th birthday!!

We love you Daniel James and wish you the very Happiest Birthday yet!!!

Blessings,
~Mom