The angels guided me around the house yesterday. You need to sleep, mommy. Somebody's pituitary gland is going to pop tonight, they said. Oh, what a beautiful conversation we {Ethy and I} had, over the weekend, about Jacob in the bible. In my mind, I think Jacob and Grandpa have Ethan to monitor from heaven. That is just my imagination. The angels may be too, but I don't think so. I was flying in my dream, which is angel for we wouldn't miss this moving up ceremony for anything. Of course, the water was turned off, which is Walker for, we become a man when the house is roughing it {That was Ben's participation in the ceremony}. I awoke and was impressed to start cleaning the silverware{which is Bodden for, something unusual is happening}, in our primitive makeshift sink. Things have to be clean as they can be for the little fellow. You don't want to miss the look on his face. This is the last baby day. We are going to start seeing his man face develop. I know you know this, mommy. The nosebleed came like, childbirth. Like everybody knew it was coming. All our house and our heavenly worship community in mystic sweet communion with us. Don't miss the fireworks for Walker men, when they grow into manhood.
The dream was so graphic and warlike and smoke and planes and flight patterns. I woke up, just to get out of it. Maybe, they were letting me pick his grown up features as they set them in the glands. We thanked God for Dr. Fricht and reminisced about the deliverances that brought him to this point as I wiped the blood off his face and hands with the warm water and paper towels, that we rarely have on hand. But did, because "Ethan was becoming a man, today!"
Take his picture, mommy, you don't have enough pictures of that face and the grown face is going to surprise you, soon enough.
Thank you for reminding me that boys gallop swiftly into manhood, without as much pomp and circumstance. That is what my daddy was saying to me, when he talked about how it looked like I was being blown up like a balloon. They grow as you watch them. You are not going to want to miss this. I'll try to be aware.
