4 Years...4 Years?!

Today Brennan turned four. I can't believe that he's four already. I know I'll probably be typing the same thing when he's five, then six, then sixty (yes, I do plan on living until 89...at least! :0). It's one of those things you always hear but don't really get much until your doing it - time does go by quickly with your kids. One minute they're crapping through their diapers, the next minute they're crapping through their underwear. Well, I guess there's comfort in consistency :0).

Seriously, Brennan is getting to be such a big boy. Putting on his own clothes, picking up after himself, telling me not to talk with my mouth full. It's just so neat to watch an entire person form before your eyes. To see him grow physically is cool, but really it's the growth I've seen in how he thinks and perceives things. How thoughtful he is. How he wants to take care of Aidan and offers to "watch" him while I take a shower.

It's also been wonderful to watch his spiritual growth. To have him asking questions about God and even teaching me profound things in his own words is such . For instance, today I was trying to take a shower and had Aidan locked in the bedroom with me. We have a master bath off our bedroom and so I shut the door and took one of my fastest showers ever. All the while, I'm thinking, "please don't let him pull the dresser down on himself" or "don't eat my diamond earrings that are in the box that he could grab off the dresser and easily pry open in seconds." All these things are going through my head and then I just wished I had Brennan in there to play with Aidan. Two minutes 23 seconds later, I open the door and Brennan is sitting there playing with his brother. So I told him he was an answer to prayer because I was worried about Aidan. He said, "Mommy, you shouldn't be surprised. You know God is here." Wow.

So now, my little "baby" is four years old. Brennan and I watched the special video Don and I made about him during his first year and I was not trying to blubber the entire time. I already miss that. But I am truly excited to see what this next year will hold and what new things I'll learn from him.