Of Dax, Our May Day Babe...

There once was a boy who was born on May Day.  He sang to his mama with the sweetest coos and stared deep into her soul with the most piercing and alert gaze a newborn ever mustered.  She traced his perfect profile and watched his fingers curl around hers, “Forever my May Day Babe,” the mama whispered.  And she went to bed with a magic smile.

 

Soon the boy grew into his rock star hair and he smiled his tiny dimpled grin, which made the hearts of his mama and daddy-o flutter.  Frog-legged kicks turned into knees on carpet, and away the boy went… crawling toward adventure and leading, then following, his brother, in a way that the two of them have done since before we ever had the privilege of meeting them.
"Forever my loving, exploratory May Day babe," the mama thought.

The boy was always so curious and so eager for the next great scene, so he climbed to the tops of chairs and shelves to see the world afar.  He liked what he saw, so he climbed higher and soon, he scaled fences and taught his brothers his climbing tricks.

“Forever my curious and fearless May Day Babe,” the mama thought. 

The boy stretched taller and taller and his words and thoughts became bigger and deeper.  He ran toward adventure – things that go fast, things that roar and soar.  He asked curious questions and made funny, yet truthful, observations about life.

“Forever my observant and precocious May Day Babe,” the mama said.

And this weekend, after five good years have filled the span of time between his May Day birth, and now… he has given us endless happy moments and enough love to fuel us for eternity.  We will recount the details from the day he was born and thank our lucky stars that he came to be and that he is ours to love.  And after we observe him a little bit more closely than most days, and make ourselves sentimentally aware of all the ways in which he has grown and makes us proud; we’ll probably run off in search of more adventure.

Happy Fifth Birthday to our one and only May Day babe, Dax.

We love you, FOREVER!