Luca and his abuelito Francisco
Today is Little Man’s first birthday. Year One. On this day February 5th, one year ago, Luca came into our lives. It’s been a long, strange, hard, wonderful year. A year probably very typical to any new parent and yet so totally foreign to anyone who hasn’t broached that life passage yet. Lil’ Man has grown so much, I can’t believe it. More than that, Marcia and I have grown as well. Grown up. Aged. Deteriorated. Gotten younger at heart. Pushed. Pulled. Exploded. Lost. and Found. The one thing this year has represented to me, above all else is ‘Love’. Unselfish, pure Love for another human being. If I could, I’d put all my experiences, hopes, dreams and desires into him and extinguish my life from this existence, like a mother spider whose young are hatched and her ultimate gift to sacrifice her body for her babies’ survival. Yes, cryptic. But most parents probably feel the same kind of love towards their kids. That’s the kind of ‘Love’ that I have learned this year. And I’m glad the person I get to share it with, is this gentle, brash, glowing, feisty, shy soul we call ‘Luca’. Sometimes I ruminate to myself, I wonder who he was in his last life. I’d love to have met him/her.
Here’s to Luca’s first birthday. chocolate cake for everyone (quite coincidentally, daddy’s favorite).
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A toast to Luca and parents. Thanks for letting us experience some of your adventures through this window. To many more blessed years for you guys. I hope one day he will be able to go back and read your blog entries and see how his young life was chronicled through the eyes of his father, on the internet. Amazing stuff.
Happy birthday Luca!! What a beautiful post. Cheers, and here’s to many more years of LOVE. And chocolate cake :)
I got tears in my eyes reading this. Happy Birthday, Luca. Here’s to LOVE.
Ed, as always, very moving and just lovely, lovely. I do hope you captured Luca enjoying some chocolate cake. And thank you for sharing this part of your life. Parenthood really is just a wonderful thing. Cheers to LOVE indeed!
happy birthdy luca !! … and ed – don’t make me cry at work anymore ;-)
How beautiful Ed! I cannot believe it has been a year either! We are looking forward to those feelings to someday, the good ones and the troubled ones…Thank you for sharing your little man’s milestones with us! oxo,Mags
happy birthday to the little man. Congrats to mom and dad.