14 years ago, we (#theOGdertings) were very young, naive mid 20 year olds. we had been together for 9 years, but only married for 8 months.....we got pregnant in Hawaii on our honeymoon and Bryson arrived exactly 30 days early!
the weeks leading up to valentines I was being monitored for high blood pressure, I am certain it was stress related......Brooks at the time raced RC cars (he would still love to do that and the basement still has several, but instead he pours his "spare time" into soccer).....in FL in Feb they host some big "national" RC event.....we decided it was best if he went and I stayed back (that was dumb thinking about it now)....he left late one afternoon drove all the way through the night to get there, I had an appt the next day, and my blood pressure was worse, so I had to have a stress test.....Brooks drove right back home from Orlando.....I am pretty sure he was gone less than 24 hours (oops)
they let me go home, but I was closely monitored for the next week.....so on Valentine's I had another followup and was told to go straight to the hospital....I didnt because I didnt realize the severity of preeclampsia.....I actually went to chick fil a for a chicken salad sandwich.....
we checked in late Valentine's afternoon and Bryson Robert was born on 2/15/06 at 5:26 pm weighting 6lbs!
he has always been a mama's boy and he still is....I appreciate that he is 14 TODAY and he still asks every night for me to lay with him before he goes to sleep. I love his sweet heart, how he works hard at everything (except loading the dishwasher) , he often has 12 hour days with school and sports....he is super smart, smarter then I could have ever imagined, he serves at church, he has a great group of strong friends, he makes me proud on a daily basis!
so for his 14th birthday----he will be playing soccer and we will be in the car most of the day to play soccer so theres no super fun birthday party or no tropical trip this year, but he will be doing what he loves with the boys he loves on the soccer field! (he did wake up to 14 of his favorite things)
This is 14!