my beautiful boy

November 24, 2009

It seems a bit odd to write a post about my son the day before my daughter's birthday. But I just happened to take a couple of these photos yesterday and they melted my heart.

Laurent was a challenging baby. In retrospect he was probably allergic/sensitive to something in my diet that I just wasn't astute or informed enough to figure out. Basically he was colicky and his whole first year was difficult. I had a 2 year old at the same time and it was a tiring, patience trying time of my life. I grew a lot and then he grew out of it.

With such an "auspicious" start I might have worried about his future childhood. I needn't have. Since about 18 months when he was finally able to really communicate and motor around quite independently he has been my sunshine boy. In fact it took a visit from family we rarely see to point this out to me; his sunshine-y quality.

He's quite simply a fun-to-be-around, energetic, rarely down, amiable, people loving and sensitive hearted boy. I am so blessed to call him my son. And except for that first year and a little bit of his 2's when we were establishing who was in charge, raising him has been a pleasure, truly.

Laurent I'm so happy you're my son.