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Thursday, January 17, 2008
::sigh:: another baby growing up here Shared in Being Quiverfull
It's been 10 years since our Matthew arrived. Our second boy. A second boy is a big deal, you know. Maybe not in some families where boys seem to flow into the mix easily, but here...we have Christopher, then we had a season of just girl babies arriving.....it was 6 years after him for the first one, then another 2 for the next, and then 3 for the next one....
But patience (and preserverance, Dewey says....funny man) finally gave us another boy after 11 years of pink and ruffles and lace. Another great-white-hunter-in-the-making. Another fisherman-deluxe. Actually, he was our fisherman who fully expected every fish caught to simply live in our swimming pool....not join the freezer. Oh how that boy cried and protested with his first fish....and Dad could do nothing else but drive him back to the river and let the thing go free. LOL....quite the test of patience for a fisherman like Dad, let me tell you! He was thinking dinner....Matthew determined it was just the 'right' thing to do to let the fish go free.
Matthew Allen James -- we couldn't decide on a middle name. I wanted Allen for Dewey's middle name....he wanted James for his father's middle name. We did argue a bit over it all, so I said fine. Dewey left the room to get coffee, grinning over his 'win' like the Cheshire Cat, and I promptly buzzed the nurse and said I had a name for the birth certificate....and graced our son with TWO middle names (boat rocker). Later I did feel a bit bad for doing it....so 3 babies later, when our KatiAnne arrived, and we again couldn't decide, I blessed her with 2 middle names as well...Kathryn Elizabeth Anne.
Truly, our lives have been blessed with the addition of Matthew. He is a sensitive, eager boy. He will lend you a hand no matter what the task ahead, and he is cheerful to do it. He has a streak of shyness a mile wide at times, though, but it just adds to his wonderful personality. He is a country boy through and through. No city living for him. He was born in the country, raised in the country and he just can't imagine living anywhere else.
He is a John Deere fan. It really took all he had to not be disappointed a tiny bit when Dad arrived home with a Ford tractor....a BLUE one. But, a tractor is a tractor in Matthew's eyes, and while a JD would have been better in his estimation, we could always 'fix' this one by simply painting it JD green and yellow. Always thinking, that boy!
At breakfast this morning he opened one gift (we do joint birthdays here with so many of them -- he and Abbey share a birthday month, so they will celebrate with a family dinner and cake later this month). His gift was a simple pocket watch. Nothing fancy, but he needed one he could wear and use daily -- for Christmas he received a 40th Anniversary John Deere collector's watch that he has tried really hard not to use. One day, when he is married, he will receive the pocket watch his great grandfather used....Dewey has kept his grandfather's, and his father's watches tucked away all this time.
So, Happy Birthday Matthew Allen James. You have blessed our family in so many ways over the past 10 years. We cannot count the joy and blessings we have received by the Lord placing you in our family, and we eagerly look ahead to the next 10 years and beyond with you!!
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 - Untitled Comment
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Happy Birthday to Matthew! So fun to watch our children grow up!
Been awhile since I visited your blog - love the new look!
Blessings,
Julia
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 - Happy Birthday Matthew
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Nicholas and I both want to wish you a happy 10th birthday!!! Many blessings to you! Sara and Nicholas
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 - Untitled Comment
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Happy Birthday to Matthew! I loved reading about your son, deana! He is just a few days younger than our samuel. :) Hope his day was a happy one!
Blessings~~
gloria
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I have no greater joy, than to hear my children walk in truth... III John 1:4
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