My Pumpkin

He's so sweet and sensitive and innocent. He is considerate of others. He is generous and kind... even with his sister. He is purposeful in most all he does, thinking of how his actions will effect others. He strives to be God's little helper by looking for ways to help and show kindness to others. He's my pumpkin.



I've mentioned before how he's too sweet to be competitive.



It's true on so many more levels than just competitiveness.



A few nights ago, he came to sit beside me and feel the baby kick. His sweet nature can't bear to call it a kick so he refers to it as, "She touched me!!!" Well, he wanted to talk to her about all that touching she was doing. I was absentmindedly watching TV during all this when all of a sudden, there is a big head in my face pointing toward my mouth. The more I moved my head to try to escape, the more his head moved and came closer to my mouth. Finally, I realized he was trying to talk to his sister... you guessed it... through my mouth.



Tuesday night, Zman curled up with me as we were watching The Biggest Loser. If you watched it, you know, as ridiculous as it seems, it was a tear jerker. In this episode, one brother had to eliminate the other brother. I sat looking dead ahead, afraid to look at anyone else in the room for fear of being laughed at for crying. All of a sudden, out of the corner of my eye, I notice Zman's face, red as can be. I look over and he is watching, tears STREAMING down his face. No noise, just a steady stream of tears and a few sniffles. Vince won't look at anyone either.... I wonder why. <Enter comic relief> Hgirl hops up, looks around, and says, "Hey, why is everyone crying???" No one could even answer. She then begins to try to make herself cry with the rest of us. Vince and I began to giggle but Zman continued to cry into the commercial break.

His dad finally asked (once he had regained his own composure... which I'm sure he loves that I'm sharing with you...), in a deeper, more manly voice than usual, "Son, are you okay?"

"Yeah, Dad. I'm okay. It is just really, really sad."

My sweet, sensitive pumpkin. I cannot even begin to express the blessing he is to my life!!!

I love you, Pumpkin! You make my days brighter just by being you!!!