Happy 2nd Birthday! I love you through and through

I can't believe my little October baby is already two years old.  It seems like only yesterday Matthew and I were changing her first poopy diaper and watching our tiny little 8 lb, 9 ounce miracle coo and yawn and stretch as a teeny little baby.  Gavin has grown into such a smart, silly, loving, creative, ornery and happy little boy.

There are a lot of bittersweet feelings on a birthday- feelings of nostalgia, remembering where we were "this very minute two years ago" and remembering a tiny little boy placed in our hands and in our lives to take care of raise to be a Godly man.  But rather than focus on that, it's a time to celebrate the awesomeness that is our little Gavin Cox!  I am not sure I could sum it up more perfectly than with our favorite "good night" book that we got him for his first Christmas.  I wish I could claim fame to this cute little poem that's become a Cox family favorite, but alas it was written by Bernadette Rossetti Shustak.  I would also like to brag mention that Gavin knows the book by heart and can read it along with us when we read it to him at bed time. 

 So without any further ado, I present a birthday poem for our birthday boy and wish him the happiest day a big 2-year-old boy can possibly have. 

 

I love you through and through!

 

I love your top side

and I love your bottom side.

 

I love your inside

and outside.

 

I love your happy side,

your sad side,

 

 your silly side,

and your mad side.

I love your fingers

 

and toes,

your ears

and your nose.

I love your hair and eyes

your giggles

and your cries.

 

I love you running

 

and walking

silent

and talking!

 

I love you through and through

 

 yesterday, today and tomorrow too! 

 

We love you, Gavin Cox! May you continue to grow in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and men.