Happy Birthday to you!

We celebrated Genius's 10th birthday this week. It's hard to imagine that this tiny little baby:

Is 10 whole years old. 10 years that have flown by. 10 years of learning to parent, 10 years of putting up with siblings, 10 years of milestones, 10 years of learning. I can still remember walking the neighborhood with my mom, trying to get contractions to stay steady, driving over the bumpiest road possible to the hospital, calling everyone to tell them it's time to go to the hospital, and the long wait for his arrival. And the hour of being stitched up after having him! Then the joy turning to worry when I changed his diaper and he had poop and blood in it, that resulted in a 10 day NICU stay. I remember crying on the way home because I was going and my baby was staying- that wasn't the way it was supposed to go. Then taking him home after the NICU, the nurse walking me to the car, me buckling him in, then turning around and finding I was alone, in the parking lot, with my son.

I still to this day, can't believe they let me take him home!

Now he's a video game playing, video game making (in 3-d, no less), reads faster then I do, loves good books, smart, funny person. Person being the key word- he is his own individual with his own personality. He's starting to be a teenager, despising having photos taken, muttering about things, and having a bit of a tempter. But most of the time he is a great big brother, and a great kid. I can't wait to see what the next 10 years will bring.