Living Arrows - Week 39 of 52

We all go through the phase where our babies are all of a sudden a toddler and we're gutted the baby days are over. Then all too soon, one day we look at them and our toddler has become a small person, a boy, who doesn't at all toddle any more but rather strides with confidence. I did not realise that there is another stage. When the small boy, becomes a big boy. I didn't realise how much this would take me by surprise. Sometimes the transition is so gradual that we only see the change when it jumps out from a photo. Yet, when I TOOK the photo I did not notice it. I thought I was taking a pic of how nice he looked in new clothes - an outfit his Godmother Aunt had given him for his birthday, that I recently found in a tidy up.

Such it was this weekend. When having a cursory glance through my pictures this one took my breath away. My lil boy all too soon looks like a young man

I love how he rocks skinny jeans, so much so, that they're the only sort I buy now. The gifted outfit was actually this shirt with a matching jumper tank top. He's not wearing the tank top as we got amazing weather this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, totally out of the blue, despite October being nearly on our doorstep. It's like the weather Gods want to say sorry for how hit and miss August was.

The other thing that's happening over here is that we're back to Football club AND he is finally old enough for school after school clubs, so we have that too, which funnily enough is Board Games, which is so perfect for him.

When Daddy tried to buy him football trainers, he opted for these Spiderman ones from Brantano - you know the sort, the shoes that light up  in the heel with every step. So my lil man is not a grown up at all after all.

And as if that is not confirmation enough, in a recent tidy up I came across his Bob dinosaur teddy - a knitted/crocheted Dinosaur and Aaron is now taking him everywhere even though he'd not seen or played with him in two years. The other night he even put 20 teddies in the bed and made me read a bedtime story to them all. So, my lil 5 year old is still my lil guy after all. Just that there are lil glimpses, every so often, of the young man he will one day become *sniff*.

Aaron you might be my Living Arrow, but for now, I am holding you close and am not at all ready to shoot you off to your future... yet!

Radiant Little Person - My Living Arrow

It's been the longest time since I hooked up with Living Arrows, but firstly I was blown away by how Aaron's smile just JUMPED out of the screen on my camera yesterday. I said to Daddy, it's the best picture EVER. When I visited Romanian Mum this morning, I straight away knew what I needed to do with that photo. It's a Living Arrows photo if ever I saw one

My beautiful radiant boy. My heart, light, love and soul, all in a pint sized bundle of joy!

Here you see, below, he is not even doing anything on the computer - he is just enjoying wearing the bin lid earphones. I remember that feeling in the 1970s, the first time I tried a pair on. It was in Wood Green at my Great Aunt's house. Takes me right back #Nostalgic

Bye for now, busy day ahead of me.

Lots of love, Liska

x

My Footballer - Living Arrows Week Four

Yikes Living Arrows is at week 4 already.

When I took part in week 1 I said I would partake every week - ooooops.

Well here is one for this week.  I will come back to this here post and add photos for the missing weeks, but for now, here is my football crazy 3 year old.

At the beginning of last week we played football in the park with Daddy for FOUR days in a row.  It was SO much fun and we discovered Aaron is pretty superb. He tackles, scores goals and dribbles like a boy older than his years.  We were in an outdoor pitch that doubles up as a basketball pitch.  Daddy and I also had a basket ball with us, so we kept shooting some hoops (I was impressed with how many I got in) but Aaron was only interested in the football.

Bless him one of the evenings we were there, there was a gang down the other end, and the youngest kept kicking the ball back to Aaron whenever it wandered.  At one point they had a kick-about whilst Daddy and I played basketball.  So sweet to see my son play with bigger boys.  He tends to gravitate to four and five year olds as 3 year olds are always shorter than him.  That includes at Kung Fu, which he is now in his second week of bless him.

Safe to say I am the Mum of a boy now.  All aspects of toddler-dom are GONE! (Don't talk about the night AND morning bottle *coughs*).

I completely forgot to add the Living Arrows badge yesterday. Back here now to rectify:

Bye for now,
Liska xx

Living Arrows 1/52 - contains poetry

Because childhood's not forever...

The Soul I Grew - The Boy I Knew

My soul told heaven: I am Mother

Heaven answered: got you, no other.

You came through me, we were one,

But now you're a boy, you are my son.

Although to you I do care,

To the world I must share.

Because you are on loan to me

It doesn't mean you'll forever be.

You are a living arrow flying

Through the universe, trying.

Trying to grow, trying to live

Successfully learning all that I give.

You are a living arrow soaring

To me you'll never ever be boring.

You always show me something new

Something that I never knew.

You always spot the things I don't

I'm too busy, not that I won't.

I give to you, the love I feel,

It's so powerful, so real.

I know you are not mine

You are however simply divine.

But we chose each other, 

this time!

Original Work, written by New Mum Online 07/01/2013 - I retain copyright.

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If you'd like to join in head over here: Living Arrows Week 1

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