Dear 5-year-old Caleb,

My smiley, happy boy, today you are FIVE!  You add so much joy to my life!  You are an absolute gift to your daddy and I for so many reasons.

You love to help.  Help Lukey get his shoes off, help me fold the laundry, help daddy run errands.  You contribute to helping our house run more smoothly by pitching in with a willing heart.

You are quite a talented little artist and you love making things.   Projects, inventions, drawings…your creativity is through the roof.

You are insightful and curious and so smart.  I can’t wait to see where life takes takes that big brain of yours!

You have big faith in God.  I’ll never forget the night when you ended your bedtime prayer saying, “…and thanks God, for a happy ending.”  I’m not sure what made you feel thankful for that on that night, but you’re right.  There is a happy ending coming and we ought to be more thankful for it.  Or another time you were praying and thanked God for holding the world just so perfectly and so gently in His big hands….a prayer that was perfectly timed amidst world events you are completely unaware of.  God teaches me so many things through your faith, Caleb.

And I can’t leave out the fact that you are totally hilarious.  Between your one-liners, your facial expressions, and your dance moves, you have me laughing on a daily basis.  I totally adore the way you love to make people smile.  You get that from your daddy.

So for the year you’ll be five, my prayer is that you will continue to think deep thoughts and ask big questions.  That you will continue to speak freely about the God who made you and loves you.  That you’ll continue to find joy in helping others.  I’m such a lucky lady to be your mommy.  God did a very good work in you, son and He is not done yet.