Dear Jacob,
I started to love you from the moment I knew I had you. You are a gift from God and you are so precious to me and your mommy. You and your mommy are the best in my life. I enjoy you being in our family.
You have grown up a lot since I first met you face to face in hospital. Daddy loves you. I enjoy seeing you grow spiritually, physically, intellectually, emotionally and socially. You are six years old today. Happy birthday!
I started to pray for you since you were still in mommy's tummy. I gave my blessings to you for 9 months before we met. I am glad that I am still delivering my blessings to you almost every night. I enjoy the moments when I read bible stories to you, especially you beg for more stories and yet you complained your eyes were heavy. This is the time I could tell you about God and show you our family values. This is the time we could review and even discuss about the good and bad things of your day, and guide you everyday. I thank God for your salvation, and that you continue to trust in Jesus.
When I first see you, you were so tiny, length 66cm, and weighed 9lbs. Today, you height 116cm and weigh 46lbs. You are a big boy now. You are fit and strong that you swim, you bike, you ski, you skate, you play hockey and your play soccer. I see you enjoy all the fun as you are growing up, and I want you to stay that way. I really enjoyed the end-to-end canal skate run we had together last month. I spent 2 years taking skating lessons so that I could "teach" you basic skate during public skating on the weekends. Your skating is getting better each. Sooner or later, you will out skate me. Daddy is happy to see you continue on your hockey fun.
When you did wrong, it is my responsibility to show you the right way. I know sometimes you don't like it, but daddy got to do my job here. In most cases, I think I am reasonable. However, in a few occasions, I got into a little pushy and unreasonable. I made you really upset or felt hurt sometimes. Daddy makes mistake too. Daddy is not perfect, and sometimes got into too emotional. When I apologized, you always give me all your forgiveness. I am thankful for that. I will continue to correct my mistaken and improve my parental skill as you grow.
Starting this SK school year, you came home with the Pokemon talks. You started to talk about Pokemon all day long. It was a big challenge to daddy as I have no idea what Pokemon is. I was forced to ask around, Google about it and to buy the Pokemon cards for you. You proudly showed me your newly Pokemon cards everyday. Then, you started to trade the Pokemon cards with your classmates and told me all the great things about the Pokemon. You slept with your cards. You got into school bus with your cards. You even cried telling me your friend told away your cards, when I picked you up from school bus. Then, I figured out I could borrow Pokemon DVD from our public library. I really enjoy watching every Pokemon DVD with you. Daddy was having fun learning new Pokemon characters with you.
You were a shy boy when you were little. I pray that you will continue to grow socially in a positive way. I am so happy that you now having your own best friends from your school: William, Ryan, Jack and Michael. I am happy that you finally had your first play date with William last November. You've learnt a lot of good stuff from your peers. Recently, you started to talk about Sky Landers that you learnt from William. Again, daddy has no idea what that is, and silly kept saying "Hi-Landers". I am looking forward to learning more from you.
Jacob, I enjoy having you and you enjoy having me today. You will meet more and more new friends, make more and more discoveries. As you grow up, daddy will start to fade away, and one day I will leave you and return to our Heavenly Father. That day will come. Today, I want to let you know how much daddy loves you. I want you to know that God loves you. When daddy is not around, go to your Heavenly Father. He loves you with His everlasting love. He will never leave you or forsake you. Faith is the best I have for you.
As usual, I am reading a chapter of Psalms with you on your birthday.
Psalms chapter 6
1 Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger
or discipline me in your wrath.
2 Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am faint;
heal me, Lord, for my bones are in agony.
3 My soul is in deep anguish.
How long, Lord, how long?
4 Turn, Lord, and deliver me;
save me because of your unfailing love.
5 Among the dead no one proclaims your name.
Who praises you from the grave?
6 I am worn out from my groaning.
All night long I flood my bed with weeping
and drench my couch with tears.
7 My eyes grow weak with sorrow;
they fail because of all my foes.
8 Away from me, all you who do evil,
for the Lord has heard my weeping.
9 The Lord has heard my cry for mercy;
the Lord accepts my prayer.
10 All my enemies will be overwhelmed with shame and anguish;
they will turn back and suddenly be put to shame.
Daddy
