MY KITE DON’T FLY

See this cutie…

He is my second born and he is now almost 35.       (AM I REALLY THAT OLD!?!?) 

Life was hard on Josh. Life was not fair. We have a saying in our family that says: “Life’s not fair, just ask Josh.”

I mean, seriously, what kid who is being held by his favorite “Noni”, with a marshmallow in his had is still not smiling.

This was his baby picture…

He was our “NOT NEVER!!!” kid. “I not never doing that. I not never going to smile, I not never going to go to Disneyland!!!”

Dude! Smile, you’re at the Zoo for heaven’s sake…

Buddy! It’s your pre-school Christmas party… Santa is coming!

Even as he got older, his life was hard..

Actually, he did smile occasionally and boy what a difference. Just look how his face lights up…

 

 

Love his dimples….

Well anyway, this determination of his has really taken him places. He is still my “NOT NEVER” kid. Two years ago he was diagnosed with a very serious disease. “I not never going to let it get me down!” (He beat it and is now in remission.)

“I not never going to sit around and do nothing with my life!'”

He has spent three summers doing anthropologic digs in Peru and now is leaving for Yemen in two weeks to study Arabic for nine month.

So why did I title this post “MY KITE DON’T FLY”?    Because that used to be one of his favorite sayings as well. “My bike don’t work, my mitt don’t work, my bat don’t work, (that’s what he was telling me in the first picture).

So I got a little carried away and this post was originally supposed to be about a kite I made to hang on my gate…

In trying to come up with some clever title, it just popped into my mind and then it reminded me of Josh and yaa daa yaa daa yaa daa…

It don’t work as a flying kite…

 

But it works on my gate.

Thanks Josh for being a great son!!!!