I seem to be looking at Alex a lot lately...and wondering if he is growing by the minute...or if it's just my imagination.... Everything about him seems to have grown this year...not just his height...but I do see hints of maturity....just hints, and then he does the whole one-step-forward-two-steps-back dance. But that's ok...it's enough to give me hope. I have had to buy him new clothes about 3 times in the past year or so....3 times!! But it really hits me when I compare the cousin pictures from last year and this year. Last year, the picture shows the girl cousins not looking to enthused that he has surpassed them height wise...and this year...he is creeping ever closer to his cousin, Andrew. It has been eye-opening, amusing, frustrating, confusing...to watch my little boy begin the journey toward manhood. But, I have to say...despite the fact that he seems to be allergic to doing anything I ask most of the time....I have seen real growth in him this year....not just in stature....and I can scarcely remember the little guy that he was in a time that seems not so long ago. He's 'the real guy, the best guy'...and we still have some work to do...but I am so proud of the good, funny, kind, honest, enthusiastic, talented man that is trying to break through the middle school guy shell. Here's to all the growth of any kind that is yet to come in 2014.
“Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.”
~ Hugo Hamilton
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