Happy Birthday Dylan!
My youngest son, Dylan, is 24! I’ve always told him that he was born the day before Valentine’s Day because he’s such a “sweetheart.” This photo was taken when he was 6years old. The questions below, asked when he was 4 ½, were part of an interview done for “The Dolphin Messenger,” a Blue Mountain School Children’s Newsletter that I helped students put together when I taught creative writing there years ago.
Dylan, what are you going to learn to do when you grow up?
1. How to ride a bike.
2. How to ride a motorcycle.
3. Maybe I could jump from the clouds on a parachute
4. I’ll learn how to swing from vines.
5. And open an orange by myself.
6. I’m going to learn how to work on cars with a screw.
7. And open sodas by myself and put one in my lunchbox and go to work.
Dylan, what did you learn to do this year?
1. I know how to climb up the ladder.
2. At the river, I can go under.
3. I’m learning how to sew.
4. I made my new pouch.
5. I learned you can’t drink right out of bottles.
6. And I learned how to climb trees and get some apples down all by myself!
How much of the above has come true, you might wonder? He’s a skilled mechanic, does plumbing, electrical, and carpentry work. He likes to buy and sell cars, seems to have a different one every year, and owns a 4 wheeler.
Post Note: February being the month of love, Heather at One Woman’s World has announced the first annual One Woman’s World Share the Love Blog Awards! Heather says, "The competition is designed to encourage the widening of our reading world, and the fostering of community among women bloggers." Nominations will be accepted until midnight on Monday, February 13th at which point voting will begin. Go see the categories and the nominations thus far.
Comments
He is a sweetheart and I miss his innocence, as I miss all of ours.
HAPPY BIRTDAY DILLY XOX
Posted by: Sherrry | February 13, 2006 9:20 AM
This picture of Dylan is precious, as are his responses. It shows that even then he was very interested in learning to do for himself. It's great that you kept this. I've kept a lot too. One of my favorites was when Molly told me when she was only 2 years old, "Ma, for all my life, all I've ever wanted to be ia an artist." Today she is a gifted one - as are many in our clan. Aren't kids the greatest?!
Happy birthday to your baby son.
Posted by: Kathy | February 13, 2006 9:52 AM
Happy Birthday Dylan :-)
Posted by: Simply Coll | February 13, 2006 10:59 AM
Happy Birthday Dylan.
I'll be happy if the Nys can earn a living and somehow learn how to cook and perhaps sew a bit. She never has seemed interested in sewing. It's great that Dylan learned to do that as well.
Someone good with fixing cars is very, very hard to find.
Posted by: srp | February 13, 2006 11:04 AM
Happy Birthday!
Those were great answers. He is so cute!
Sounds like he is a successful young man.
Posted by: Nancy | February 13, 2006 11:25 AM
I don't think he's ever sewed again since the day he said that!
Posted by: colleen | February 13, 2006 11:31 AM
I love Dylan's answers back when he was 6 years old...
You should ask him those same questions today...Wouldn't that be interesting...And you know what else might be a fascinating thing for manyof the Mom's out there to do...ask these same questions each year as their kids are growing up. You wonder what the differences might be from year to year! Wonderful questions Colleen...A Very Happy Birthday to your dear son Dylan!
Posted by: OldOldLady Of The Hills | February 13, 2006 2:37 PM
Happy Birthday Dylan!~ Hope you're holding up okay too Colleen...enjoy the snow!!
Posted by: J&J's Mom | February 13, 2006 3:07 PM
I loved his answers. Seems like we're trying to do a variation of those things all our lives. You and Dylan must have a very close connection.
Posted by: Patry | February 13, 2006 3:55 PM
How cute!!! The picture and the answers!!! I love listening to the kids. Just the other day, my 3 1/2 year old was riding behind me in the van and in a panicky voice, yelled..."Mama, my ears are broken!" He was feeling the lobes and found where there is the little dip at the bottom. Then, he wanted to know why I cut his ears!LOL It will be written down and kept for him to hear about later!
Hope Dylan has a very happy birthday!!!
Posted by: TammyB. | February 13, 2006 8:30 PM
Happy Birthday, Dylan.
Happy Valentine's Day, COlleen.
Posted by: kenju | February 13, 2006 11:18 PM
Happy Birthday, Dylan!
(great post!)
Posted by: Kimmy | February 14, 2006 12:42 PM
How lucky you are to still have that list from your son! So precious. Hope he had a good one.
Going to see how we vote for you now :)
Posted by: lisa | February 15, 2006 9:24 AM