My Best Friend

If you would of told me ten years ago that my best friend would be a three foot tall, four year old. I would of thought you where nuts. But turns out you would of been right, if you where the one to say it.
Today, I kept Troy home from daycare and spent the day with him, we made waffles for breakfast, ran to the store to pick up some stuff, we watched "Merry Madagascar" and played with his toys, had lunch together and had such a good time together. While we where sitting together eating lunch, I looked over at my son, and started to remember when he was born, and how I would sit and feed him baby food, and he is eating chicken nuggets all his own and spooning pudding in after every nugget. Gross I know, but still he grew up so fast under my eyes. Everyday he comes home knowing how to say more things, and to watch him play with his toys, and talk to him, you can tell he just loves to make believe.
I began to think about God this afternoon while I am patting Troy's back to put him to sleep, how awesome it must be to be him. Each one of us are his children, I think of all the stuff I missed while I was at work that Troy and Braiden have done, but God, he has never missed a single thing. I think to myself, it would be so cool that when I get to heaven, God has a video camera for me that he recorded things that I have missed from my children's lives. It is times like this that I really think it would be cool to be God. I wish there was some thing more that we as parents could do, but I think it is just a way of life. Every person, I have ever met that has had children, has told me, "Do not take this time for granted, they grow up fast." I can say that I did not believe a single person that told me that until today. I was always looking at it like, "yeah, it will be so cool when he sleeps through the night." "yeah, I can't wait till he talks, crawls, walks, runs,..." next thing I know, he has all of those things done, and I am stilling here looking back going, wait wait wait, I wasn't ready, Start over, I missed that, I missed this, wait... but it's done, he has grown up passed those points. The only thing that I can do now, is spend as much time as I can with my children, and stop wishing for them to complete this stage and move on. It goes fast enough, just enjoy it, even though you hate getting up in the middle of the night, you love the fact that they rest their head into your chest and are comforted, and they fall to sleep in your arms. I miss holding Troy like that, Thankfully I have Braiden to hold, but do not wish things went fast, because I did, and even though it did not make time go after faster, it did make me wish and look passed what he was doing to what he could be doing, and I missed so much.
I did not give much advice today, but I just figured it out for myself a few hours ago, so I'm sorry if it is not that much help. I hope you listen to me when I say, "Do not time this time for granted, they grow up quickly." Because I did not listen to the ones who told me, and I wish I did.

With God's Love,
Eric