Three!

Look how big my boy is! He is so grown-up. Today he turned three. THREE! Cannot believe it has been three years since this little man entered our lives!
Such a ham these days... it is rare if I get a picture of him actually smiling for the camera and not clowning and squinting his eyes so much they look as if they are closed.

Ok so this post will be kind of cheesy, but it's Grady's birthday and moms get all sentimential about their kids... at least this mom does! We recently gave some friends a baby gift, a book by Nancy Tillman called Wherever You Are My Love Will Find You. She posted the words to the book on her blog. It is the sweetest book ever written! I had to buy it for Grady and Vera. Grady loves it and I read it to him at bedtime some nights. Thought it was appropriate to post on his third birthday the words from the book. If you have kids, you need to buy this one and read it over and over to them! It's precious!

Happy Birthday, my sweet man! I love you so very much!

Wherever You Are My Love Will Find You

by Nancy Tillman

I wanted you more than you will ever know,

so I sent love to follow wherever you go.

It's high as you wish it. It's quick as an elf.

You'll never outgrow it...it stretches itself!

So climb any mountain...climb up to the sky!

My love will find you. My love can fly!

Make a big splash! Go out on a limb!

My love will find you. My love can swim!

It never gets lost, never fades, never ends...

if you're working, or playing, or sitting with friends.

You can dance 'til you're dizzy, paint 'til you're blue,

There's no place, not one, that my love can't find you.

And if someday you're lonely, or someday you're sad,

or you strike out at baseball, or think you've been bad...

Just lift up your face, feel the wind in your hair.

That's me, my sweet baby, my love is right there.

In the green of the grass, in the smell of the sea,

in the clouds floating by, at the top of a tree,

in the sound crickets make at the end of the day

"You are loved, you are loved, you are loved," they all say.

My love is so high, and so wide and so deep,

it's always right there, even when you're asleep.

So hold your head high and don't be afraid

to march to the front of your own parade.

If you're still my small babe or you're all the way grown,

my promise to you is you're never alone.
You are my angel, my darling, my star

and my love will find you, wherever you are.