Monday, January 12, 2009

For several weeks now...

... Seth has been twelve! Finally I am posting a few pics from our family celebration of his birthday, which we had the night before we left for the US for Christmas.

Birthday cookies!
Trying out the new rip stick in the dining room.
We love you, man!

Scott and Madelyn with our Christmas boy! I've always felt it was so special to have given birth at Christmas. What a gift Seth was to us that Christmas of 1996... we were about to move across the country, just a week after his birth. His coming made a move right after Christmas bearable... he was our gift, and the circumstances of the rest of our life paled in comparison to having him! He was born on the 23rd, and he and I came home from the hospital just 24 hours later, on Christmas Eve. I remember cuddling him on the couch on Christmas Eve afternoon, looking through Christmas cards as I rested there, and just feeling incredibly blessed to have this tiny boy beside me.

6 comments:

Heather said...
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Heather said...

Happy Belated Birthday, Seth. Hope you had a great day!

Rebecca said...

Happy Birthday, dear dear Seth!

Mary Beth said...

What a wonderful Christmas blessing and gift from above!

Lynne said...
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Anonymous said...

I had the stupidest smile in the last picture...! so i deleted it =] -seth