Happy Birthday Joshua!!

Here's the birthday boy with his new train set. He loved it! I really shouldn't have given it to him so close to bedtime though. It's hard to believe he's already 2 years old! Our Kenneth Joshua Tripp was born at 5:22am on November 21st, 2006 and weighed 7 lbs 13 oz and was 21 inches long. It's hard to believe he was once so tiny. It's even harder to believe we ever lived without him. Thank you, Lord, for blessing us with such a wonderful, marvelous little boy. Among other things, we pray for him to know you as his Lord and Savior, and to know that as much as we love him, he belongs to You and that You love him more than we could ever know

eating his first birthday cake

From "On the night you were born" by Nancy Tillman...

"On the night you were born the moon smiled with such wonder that the stars peeked in to see you and the night wind whispered, "Life will never be the same." Because there had never been anyone like you... ever in the world.

So enchanted with you were the wind and the rain that they whispered the sound of your wonderful name. It sailed through the farmland high on the breeze, over the ocean, and through the trees, until everyone heard it and everyone knew of the one and only ever you. Not once had there been such eyes, such a nose, such silly, wiggly, wonderful toes.

...Heaven blew every trumpet and played every horn on the wonderful, marvelous night you were born."

And here's the best baby advice I have received, and from my own mother (thanks, Mom)

"Cleaning and scrubbing can wait for tommorow,
For babies grow up, we've learned, to our sorrow.
So quiet down cobwebs and dust go to sleep.
I'm rocking my baby, and babies don't keep."

Happy 60th Birthday to Pa too!!! What a pair! Thank you for being such a wonderful Pa and Pappy!