Guess Who Tuns 21 This Week?

 Gosh it does not seem possible to me that I'm going to have a 21 year old. It's funny how those days with little kids and exhaustion can feel so very long but then looking back it feels like they grew up so fast. 

Ian turns 21 this week and I just can't wrap my head around the fact that I am old enough to have a 21 year old. I mean I don't necessarily feel young when my joints or back are hurting or I'm falling asleep at 8 or 9 at night but I still don't feel old enough to have full grown adults! 

I didn't have much to write about this week so I thought I'd just have fun sharing some pictures of Ian. 

Ian in the yellow and Alec in the blue (I was pregnant with Evan-- and had the morning sickness to prove it)

he was ALWAYS building and playing with trucks-- my only one that seemed to care at all about trucks

We always referred to him as a "little man" since he seemed so grown up for his age right from the start. Always smiling and happy but somehow still serious and careful. He preferred the company of grown ups most of the time and yet seemed genuinely liked by his peers. 

Gradually it got harder and harder to take photos of him as he refused to be in front of the camera. I started snapping pics from far away or when he was too busy to notice me.

Other times we'd bribe him to get him to cooperate or cajole him to just humor me for a minute. If I could get him laughing I knew I had him.

He built this fort all by himself.

 He seems to be able to build just about anything with any sort of material and can easily drive anything with a motor. He went through the skills at his commercial driver's license class so fast he had to pace himself so that he could also meet the minimum requirement for hours on the road.

 We could not be prouder of the man he's turning into.

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