Blake Isaac Patient: June 24, 2008, Wooster General Hospital, Wooster, Ohio...10:53 am...8 pounds, 14 ounces, 20 1/2 inches long, welcomed with love, Steve and Christina Patient...while miles away, in Auburn, Washington, without saying a word, or moving a muscle, you have captured my heart.
I would love to be in that hospital nursery, to hug you and tell you sweet Grammy stories of how much you look like your Daddy ~ because you do, or how sweet your Mommy is ~ because she is, or how much we love you ~ because we do!
It would have been such a gift to have been there to take in all of your first sights, sounds, and smells. To have witnessed the moment when a family of two became a family of three and all the while you lay resting, a completely perfect little bundle of boy, resting in your father's arms.
Yet, here we stand...instead of a pane of nursery glass between us, we have the lense of the computer screen, and in the end of the day, it really doesn't matter if we are here, or there, our love for you couldn't be any more grand. To hold you is to hold the dream of tomorrow...and that is the sweetest of blessings, indeed.
One day you will crawl, and walk...and run. One day you will coo, and jabber and...and talk. Those "One days" will come soon enough.
For today, it is more than wonderful that you are here.
There are not words big enough to tell you how loved you are...but we intend to spend a lifetime making sure that you know :)
Blake Isaac Patient, we are your grandparents, Marc Emil & Beverly Jean Patient, and we love you more than you can know!
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