Happy Birthday Tristan!!!

My sweet sweet sweet Tristan turned 5 today. He has been counting down the day since a couple of weeks ago. I can’t believe he is so grown up already. I can’t help going back to the day when he was born. I have been induced with all of my pregnancies except his. I begged and begged the doctor to schedule an induction but she said there was no need for it since there were no complications. I had to wait and wait until one day while I was busy sewing curtains for my Sister in Law Tashia, I started to feel some contractions, they were OK for a while but then they started to become more and more intense. Dan was at work and I was afraid that he was going to miss the whole thing. I asked Tashia to take me to the Hospital and she stayed with me until Dan got there. The whole thing was exciting for me since I had never had the chance to be at home and say “It is time to go to the hospital”. He made his entrance somewhere around 8 pm and he was a very easy baby to deliver. He was the fattest of all my babies at a whooping 7 pounds and 14 ounces. This little guy had the chubbiest cheeks and had the sweetest face with a green eye and a brown eye (there is a green spot on his left still). He was a cutie from the beginning and he still is. The day he came into our lives he made our family happier and things more exciting. Having 3 kids was not the hardest thing I had to do, I never saw it as overwhelming or anything like that, it felt like he was supposed to be there and join the fun.

These days he is still full of energy and can talk your ear off. There is no stopping him and I am not planning on doing that. He is a happy school boy in his 2nd year of PK and loves it. I asked him what he learned at school the other day and he said his teacher forgot to do any teaching that day, all they did was have fun and play games, he was not happy about that. I have been blessed with kids that love school and love learning and he is not falling behind on that subject.
Every time I see Tristan he has a warm smile for me and his love and affection for me can be felt very strongly. I know I am his favorite person in the whole wide world, I used to feel bad for Dan, but it actually makes me feel full with excitement that this little person adores me and it doesn’t matter if he is mad at me I can always get a hug a kiss and a smile from him.
His personality is so different from his siblings and he can surely make you laugh when he is talking to you about life, games and the ladies, he is a ladies man and he can’t help but to melt their hearts away. He had 3 “girlfriends” last year and we heard some interesting stories about them. I know we are in trouble with that boy.

We had a fun birthday celebration for him yesterday. Dan had school and I had the Super Saturday (craft day at church), but we were able to get all together after that and took him out to eat to the restaurant of his choice… MacDonald’s, but they were not accepting debit cards so we ended up going to Burger King. After lunch we went over to Chuck E Cheese’s and let them loose for a little while. At home we decorated the house for him and opened presents, which he enjoyed very much and then had some cake. The theme for his birthday was Shamu the killer whale; he adores him ever since we went to Sea World last year. All in all we had a fun day for him and I think we made him feel very special. This morning we found him sleeping in the hall way, where we sang “Happy Birthday” to him 5 times. We feel very blessed for having Tristan in our family and are grateful to be able to raise him and teach him all that we can; we hope he can grow up to be the best person that he can be. Happy Birthday Titi!!!