Life is mental. Then your eldest son turns 10 and life gets more mental and you just get really o l d .
On Friday E turns 10 and this means {if my maths is correct} that Dave and I have been parents for 10 freaking years! What the?! Double whammy actually as this also means we have been married for, wait for it, 10 FREAKING YEARS! Yup, we sealed the deal in a classy ceremony in a San Diego courthouse with one month old Ethan as best man – as he has remained to this day.
We have had some seriously good times with this kid, he was our sole team-mate for 8.5 years before graciously becoming the best big brother there has ever been. He is the kid at school that is super smart and kicks ass in the classroom but also goes pretty hard on the sports field as well. He sung his heart out on stage last night at the APPA choir festival at the Auckland Town Hall, and Dave was just the proudest Dad ever, constantly sending me pics and messages about his awesome boy. The nice thing about this is that I sung in the APPA choir when I was Ethan’s age 25 years ago and stood on the same stage at the Town Hall! There he is 4th from the left in green;
Shopping for gifts for a ten year old boy is infinitely harder than then the 9 year old I had last year. For some reason I cannot fathom the item on the top of his birthday list is this;
Hmmm. Confused? Same. That’s apparently a WWE Championship Spinner Belt Replica, which will not (sadly) be coming to live at our house post birthday on Friday. Wrestling belt, wrestling toy guys, some status update on Minecraft. And that is it. The sum total of my big guys birthday wish-list is a bunch of plastic, sweaty men in lycra gear. Scary stuff. But, compared to that his real birthday present is freaking awesome! I cannot wait for Friday morning!
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