Elijah update

Dear Elijah,

I have to be honest and say that I feel bad for middle children. Mainly because you are the baby when your other siblings are still young and also very high maintenance as well. My snuggle time with you is so much less. My patience inside of everything 'baby' is so much less. I just feel like I need to apologize somehow.

When I was putting you to bed tonight I just sat there and sang to you and snuggled with you. I try to do that every chance I get because you don't get it as much as your older siblings did. It gave me such a great chance to sit there and listen to your spirit for a little while.

You are old. You are wise. You waited a long time to come here. You are so happy to be here, you are willing to forgive me for so many things. I really appreciate that. You look at me with these eyes that are just full of excitement and happiness to just be living.

You are getting so big now, I can't believe it. You are so involved in participating with the other kids already. You know immediately if you are being left out of something. You are getting into the 'stranger danger' stage and just want to me close to me as much as possible. You are climbing through chairs, grabbing everything in your path, tasting everything, opening drawers, and already pulling on your sisters hair and then laughing about it.

Thank you for coming to us. Thank you for your strength. I can already feel it is going to be hard to keep up with you. 

I love you my little man.

Your Mom