Isaac is 22! I can’t believe how quickly time has passed. At the same time, the day he was born seems like a lifetime ago. I was induced because of high blood pressure, so couldn’t get up, couldn’t eat anything from the day prior, was on a cocktail of drugs. I don’t remember a whole lot but I do remember seeing Salvador Dali-esque visions of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches floating through the air.
It was not my finest hour.
Isaac begins planning his next birthday party around April 11. We should hearing about next year’s idea pretty soon. For almost a year he’s been telling me “almost forgot to make me a lion cake”. Well, this year’s celebration may have been a little minor compared to past years, but I did not forget the lion cake! We narrowly avoided a crisis when I couldn’t find the Birthday hat. This is a vital accessory to the party experience that he has had since he was 4 years old. The remodel was not kind to my brain. I remembered having seen the hat during our packing and shuffling and thinking
“I am definitely going to need this again. I’ll put it somewhere very special and safe so that I can easily find it in April”.
I think we all know how that went! I spent a good while trying to channel former organizing me for some idea of where that me may have put it. No luck. But, I managed to find the emergency back up Birthday hat in Isaac’s bin of silly hats. “That a close one” as Isaac would say!
Isaac was so proud to share his Lion cake with his school friends. It’s his last school birthday party ever. {sad Mama moment} He yelled at his teacher for singing the wrong birthday song. Somewhere along the way He got it into his head that the correct birthday song for this year was Ode to Joy. A great song, but not the official birthday song. I’m with the teacher on this one!
Isaac requested “Catfish Chicken” for his Birthday dinner. Our closest approximation to that was half price po-boys at TaD’s Louisiana Kitchen. It seemed to suffice! I corrected the previous wrong of not having a “22” candle for his cake and we fixed up the extras from the school party to have for our home party. Mini-Amateur added a new lion face and I think we will be submitting this photo to “Nailed it!” for an opportunity to be on the show!
There were times in Isaac’s youth when I wasn’t certain that he would ever see 22. This is the way of a parent with a Special Needs / Medically Fragile child. Every year is a gift. Isaac is a joy! He has so much to teach us about contentment. He’s also a hairy, stinky man-child that does not have enough words to say what he thinks and resorts to grabbing and hitting to get his point across. He makes us laugh. He drives us completely insane. He says the goofiest things. He is almost always right about the way something has been in the past. He loves classical music and art and picking his nose then smearing it on the car window. He occasionally says, as we’re zooming down the highway, “I’ll be right back!” Dude, where do you think you’re going?? He loves his dog, Cash Register, and his Robyn. He’s aggressively social. He laughs so hard he can’t breathe.
He is and always will be an innocent child.
He is one of a kind.
Happy Birthday! We love you and can’t wait to celebrate you more at your “Done with School” Party!
