Year Eight

The motto of this year, "You don't have to be the best, you just have to try your very best." It has been that year, the one all seasoned Moms talk about, the change in their child that seemingly takes hold overnight. This was that year. This is that guy. An independence, a competitive spirit that can get the best and worst of him, a fierce desire to be right more than wrong. A loss in interest in all things previously loved. A somewhat perfected scowl. Someone once told me that character development occurs from age seven to thirteen. I believe it. 

Change encourages growth and helps to define us, but what we know to be forever constant - is your heart and its kindness, your mind and its intellect, your witty humour and your ability to teach us all the "Whip/Nae Nae!" You truly are a miracle; a gift Anderson. On this day and always, I wish you the happiest of birthdays. xo