{"id":1665,"date":"2010-06-28T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2010-06-27T17:43:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T00:43:52","slug":"year-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=1665","title":{"rendered":"Year Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nine?? NINE?? I only get nine more and then he is a legal adult?? Say it isn’t so.? Tanner’s birthday was May 22nd? but it took me a month before the two of us got our picture day worked out.? We had a wonderful little date he and I.? After shooting these pictures, we went to CA Pizza Kitchen and had our favorite BBQ Cilantro Pizza.? Then I bought him a new baseball hat and we got ice cream.? Precious time with my firstborn child.?? I still remember the first time I saw my living room littered with baby toys and cried at the beautiful sight of it.? There was a baby in my home.? MY baby.<\/p>\n

Jim is really itchin to cut Tanner’s hair but I wouldn’t let him before pictures.? I wanted to capture it and really see all the glorious red.? I have shared this detail before but since I am walking down memory lane and this IS my blog, I am going to revisit it again.<\/p>\n

When I was young I dreamed I would give birth to a little boy with brilliant red hair.? The dream stayed with me and planted a strong desire for a red head in my heart.? When I was pregnant with Tanner I asked God over and over to bless him with red hair.?? While I do love red hair, I think in my heart, it was a more significant and symbolic conversation with God.? Because Tanner was my snowflake, I had no frame of reference.? I knew I would not see my eyes.? I wouldn’t see Jim’s perfectly chiseled jaw line.? I didn’t wonder what we would pass on to him knowing that wasn’t a possibility.? I didn’t mourn that either.? I was excited to be surprised by this little one that God was hand crafting inside me.?? I did see him with red hair though.? Because I recognized him as a gift straight from heaven, it just stood to reason with me that God had placed this little boy in my heart before He placed him in my womb.? I thought God whispered to me ahead of time about this little child and gave me a glimpse of him.? And so I always hoped…hoped that God had really spoken.? Hoped that the beautiful little red head would one day be mine.<\/p>\n

When he was born and Jim held him up for me to see, my heart nearly exploded to see all that red hair.? I knew.? This was MY son.? I am crying again just thinking about it.? I look at these pictures and tears stream.? Nine years later and I have not forgotten the grandness of the gift I have been given.<\/p>\n

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Nine?? NINE?? I only get nine more and then he is a legal adult?? Say it isn’t so.? Tanner’s birthday was May 22nd? but it took me a month before the two of us got our picture day worked out.? We had a wonderful little date he and I.? After shooting these pictures, we went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-mamas-diaries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}