He's in kindergarten where I teach.  I love the fact we can go to school together and come home at the same time. He's such the big boy now.  It wasn't long after school had started that he no longer wanted to give me a goodbye kiss there at school. I have to make sure to get my kisses now before we leave home.  He's even got to where he'll drop my hand when we pass by some of the other kids, especially those older ones.  He's growing too fast!  But I'm fortunate enough that my position at school changed this year and I now teach Computers for half the day and then Arts and Humanities the other half to ALL students. Therefore, I get Andre in class twice a week and he's always so sweet wanting my attention during that time. We steal a few private hugs and squeezes during those times.  He's even quite jealous when other kids show their affection for me.  One little girl yelled to me as I was leaving their classroom that she loved me.  I saw Andre get up and go over to her before I had walked out the door. Just as I started walking down the hallway I heard her say, "I know that's your mom but I love her too".  He did not like that not one little bit. LOL

We had a wonderful Christmas holiday together.  With his birthday on the 16th of December followed by Christmas a week later Andre now has more than enough toys, video games, and movies.  With every Christmas I'm so especially thankful for him and all that he's  brought into our lives.  

As I put him to bed tonight I imagined a time to come when he'll be too big for me to tuck in anymore and I dread the day when I'll only have the memories of doing that.  Being a parent is so hard sometimes - a wonderful, precious gift, but hard when it comes to always knowing the right thing to do or say and when it comes to letting go when you need to.  There is absolutely no greater love - the love I have for my son.

 I hope he always knows just how much he means to me and how grateful I am that he is mine.