Ike's Third Birthday

Tomorrow is Ike’s third birthday. That’s a hard number to wrap my head around.

Three years old.

Ever time around his birthday I start thinking about the first year of his life how it sucked and how it’s such a pleasant surprise that he’s here with us today. When you’re in the midst of a crisis like his first year, it’s hard to even see into next week, much less three years down the road, so when Sweetie went and got him from his crib this morning and he sat on his mom’s lap with that smile of his so wide and whole-hearted, the whole third-birthday tomorrow thing just gave it that extra kick.

Were heading out to the ocean to celebrate the whole affair. Last year around this time, I made a list of things I wanted to accomplish in the next three hundred and sixty five days, and going to the ocean was one of them. More than three hundred days later and we’re just going for the first time this weekend.

Oh well, better late than never. Sweetie’s taking the weekend off work so we’ll have three uninterrupted days of stormy/cold northwest ocean weather to play in. Three days to stand in the beach staring into that great cacophony of wind, rain and surf, to chase seagulls from tide pools and wield long strands of kelp as if they were bullwhips. Three days to put cold feet into colder water and splash around, and build giant sandcastles in the pouring rain. Three days to find enough sand-dollars, driftwood and sea-shells to fill our pockets up untill they can't hold any more.

Of course it doesn’t hurt that at the place we're staying, there’s an indoor pool to splash around, or that the rooms have fire places to cozy up to when you feet are rubbed raw from the sand and the wind is howling at the door, trying to get in.

Ike’s turning three.

He’ll be starting school here in the next few weeks I-kid-you-not.

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