My Boy- Aldous Gray Sullivan

       It's almost been a year since my son came into this world. Hard to believe a year ago I watched his birth, his first breathe and watched God prove to me that he is "God". Aldous Gray Sullivan is a miracle, anyone who has met my boy can tell you that there's truly no other 1 year old like him, whether its the fact he's the size of a 2 year old, or the fact he learns at the pace of a 3 year old there's no doubt the first time he smiles at you or says "God da God da God" (I translated that to mean "My God is good") you will fall in love. There has been no greater joy to me than to be a father, I cherish every moment I have with my son good or bad because he is a gift from the greatest of all fathers my Aba Father. I remember the day he was born, and boy was it a day!! 

       I got off early from work to go on leave and had made plans to go golfing with Ben Webb, Nathaniel Munson, and Stephen Shupe. We all arrived at the golf course and began to play our 9 holes, on the 5th hole is where the hard part of the day started. Stephen was teeing off and I was standing 10-15 feet off to the side...all I heard was "tink"...and a sickening "thud" that sounded like a wet towel hitting a tree..then I went down with my hand on my head, and there was blood and lots of it, strangely enough the pain didn't arrive until later but the nausea and not being able to put how I was feeling into words came imediately! I heard my friends saying "did it hit him?" after getting down to look at me and hearing their reactions to the apparent gash I had in my head I knew- even though I pleaded with them that I was ok- that I had been hurt and that I wasn't gonna forget this day! After loading me onto a golf cart and trucking me up the hill to get into my car and head to urgent care came the hardest part of all...telling my 9 month pregnant wife that I had been hurt...yeah that wasn't gonna be good! So w proceeded to get nates wife/kristys best friend to call her and fill her in! Well after going to urgent care, making sure I had no permanent damage, and stitching me up I was headed home!! Needless to say I was tired and had a headache (don't know why my head hurt?) so at midnight we curled into bed....not even a 1/2 an hour later I hear "Adam...I think my water broke..." My response "are you serious?" I jump out of bed and try to put together in my head what I needed to do forgetting the one thing that actually made sense at the time which was calm down and listen because if I had I would have heard my wife laughing at me in the background. So I got my composure and we got ready to head to the hospital, I called her parents, sent out text messages and loaded the car...and off we went.
     The next 48 hours went by in a flash, from us getting to the hospital and having to get checked in and get all of the insurance info, to the point where her parents showed up and later when my brother and his wife and my dad showed up....it was a time where our families were one and the same where we were all anxious to see this first grand baby of the Sullivan side, and the first male on my wife's side...he was on his way and we couldn't wait to see my beautiful boy!! It came to the point where the doctor came in and started talking to us about the epideral...my wife decided she wanted it...so we left the room to grab some breakfast and breathe while they did it. We came back and things sped up quickly before I knew it we were all getting ready for kristy to push! And did she ever!! 2 1/2 hours of pushing!!! The end result was a healthy baby boy named Aldous Gray Sullivan!! The moment he came into the world I truly felt gods love and blessings all over me, it was a feeling like I had never experienced!! Today he turns 1 and its been the best year of me and my wifes life. 

      If you ever get to spend more than a few minutes with my son you will experience his infectious laughter, his gorgeous smile and just the most amazing little fellah in the world! ( I am a little partial ) its truly an honor to be his dad, god gave you to me and your mother Aldous Gray Sullivan and for that we are forever greatful! Being a dad has taught me a lot things like sleep is over rated and poop isn't scary, and getting peed on really isn't that bad as a matter of fact it's kinda funny!!! But most most of all...and I can't stress this enough...it's taught me that Gods promises are faithful and true...we prayed and prayed and prayed and yearned for him to come...we leaned on mans understanding....and we leaned on Gods understanding...we didn't always know why things would happen, but we knew our god had already went before us and prepared a way...God gave us answers to our prayers....he gave us our God Daughter when we lost a child, he gave us Aldous Gray Sullivan when we were ready...in his time not ours. It's not always easy waiting on god, honestly it frustrating, but if you listen to his word and do what he asks of you he will bless you...if you look at the pics below you will see MY BOY,MY BLESSING, MY LEGACY....A CHILD OF THE ONE TRUE KING!!! ALDOUS GRAY SULLIVAN THE MOST AMAZING 1 YEAR OLD BOY YOU WILL EVER MEET!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SON! DADDY LOVES YOU!