…but the years are short!

Have you heard the saying, The days are long but the years are short?  Never has this felt so right as it does today.

Gavin turns 5 today!  Five!! FIVE!!

If you have been following since the days of the Baby Jelly Beans, you know what a rough year that was 5 years ago and how it seemed never ending once Gavin was born but yet remained in the NICU.
Well, those days were long, but these years are short.  And for all the trials and tribulations and worry and joy and sorrow and laughter, here we are 5 years later.  Life has been kind since that joyful/sorrowful year 5 years ago, even though there was a little piece of us missing every day.  Mostly I want to say we made it. Some days (some even recently), I didn't think we'd make it, but here we are and our little baby boy who was born 10 weeks too early is turning 5 years old.  This seems like such a milestone to me, I'm not sure why.  I guess it just seems like such a big transition from toddler to little boy.  Gavin is so smart and funny and he's such a thinker and a perfectionist that it's hard to remember that once upon a time he was a helpless preemie with an even more helpless mommy who was just hoping and praying that one day he would be well.

And is he!

Happy, happy birthday to my beautiful boy Gavin.  I love you always!