Dear Little Boy

Happy birthday! I am so proud of you. I watch you, and wonder how something so perfect could have anything to do with me. I am amazed. I am amazed at your strength, your joy, and your freakishly high pain tolerance. Your laugh brightens my day, and I am desperate for your hugs and kisses before I go to sleep at night.

Today you are 5, and you have yet to appreciate all that it means. In time you will. I hope that you understand the people and technology that have allowed you to be here, but when it comes down to it, if you weren’t has hard headed stubborn as you are, nothing would have kept you with us.

I am blessed to be your father. I wonder if others want me to stop droning on about every event from your birth to today. As much as I have hopped and prayed for you to be a normal kid, whatever that means, I know that will never happen. Not because of the near death start to your life, not because of the continued issue you might have, but for the fact that you are amazing above and beyond anything thing that has happened to you.

You are strength personified. You are my hero.

With all of the love I can muster.

Daddy

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