Thursday, January 08, 2015
Jake turns 9 tomorrow
Love having another sports fanatic in the family. Jake loves baseball and football cards. He likes watching sports on TV. He reads about his favorite teams. He can talk sports. Loves going to games. Loves playing baseball and basketball.
Loves the outdoors. Likes sitting in the stand to see deer, turkey, and hogs. Loves fishing. Wants to stay outside as long as he can. Likes going to the farm. He is all boy.
Those things make it fun to hang out together and make it easy to be his Pops.
But I am proud of Jake because he protects others. He takes care of his little sister Avery -- more than she probably wants sometimes. He stands up to bullies. He will not let girls, younger kids, or smaller kids be picked on or hurt.
He hurts when other people hurt.
He is sensitive to the feelings of others.
He is friendly and nice to everyone.
Love that when he was the only boy in the Christmas pageant, he stuck it out. Played a fine Joseph.
He behaves in school. Well, occasionally he has an issue with talking. Cannot imagine where that comes from (it is possible Pops and Uncle Joe Don might have had that issue from time to time too).
Jake loves to go to church. He walks around with me sometimes meeting people and talking to them. People skills already.
He is a good role model for his younger cousins.
But here is the big one: Jake loves his family, his God, and Jesus. I love to hear him pray.
I sometimes look at Jake and just thank God. Thank him for healing him when he had Kawasaki disease a couple of years ago. Thank him for making a special and unique boy. Thankful because I know God will do amazing things thru him for the Kingdom.
Thanks God for letting me be Pops to Jake. I am blessed.
