Happy Birthday Benjamin

December 8, 2005

You were brand new and so tiny (the smallest of the four of you).

And then you were one,

and two,

and three,

and four,

and now you are five.

When we talk about you Ben, we talk about how kind you are, how tender.

We watch you build things. You ask for your dad's castle game a lot so you can sit in the dining room and arrange the castles on the board, building a little city. When your classroom got a building set like tinker toys, you were beside yourself. You don't like your homework, even though you can do it in about a minute every time if you just would, and every time you have to brush your teeth you say, "Again?" You close your eyes during the scary parts of Ghostbusters and ET, but you'll ask to watch these over and over again. You go with the flow. Of all of our kids, you will come and ask for one of us to come and play with you away from everyone else for just a little while. You melt my heart when you show up and tell me you love me out of nowhere.