Happy Birthday, Jeb! If I were planning my life all over again, I’d start sooner and pray harder to have a zillion little boys just like you! Yes, you keep me hopping with your boundless energy! Yes, there’s some advice that has to be given often: “Calm down” or “Share your toys” or “Don’t argue or whine!”…. but who doesn’t need some reminders? I know I do! But you have a heart the size of Texas (and that’s BIG!)…. and most of all, you make my heart do a happy dance whenever you’re around! You have me wrapped around your little fingers ten times over, because my world lights up with you in it! You’re fun, you’re random, you’re happy- always! How can you be the wildest little Bates, and yet be so loved and adored by all??!!! It’s that personality plus that makes you so irresistible! Just one request: stop growing up so fast! I love you to pieces, little rascal, and all too soon I’m gonna be sitting on a couch remembering how you used to love to cuddle and read, and how you’d try to sneak in my bed before dad could send you off to your own, and how you’d remind us all to enjoy life a little more! Thank you for being you! ❤️😍
