My Sweet Noah,
Happy birthday, my love! I cannot believe you are 4 years old! It feels just like yesterday I heard your sweet cry for the first time.
What a beautiful and wondrous place you get spend your 4th birthday! Surrounded by God’s glory, I know heaven is blowing every trumpet today in celebration of you. How lucky you are to celebrate your birthday with Jesus! My heart longs to have you here to celebrate, but my mind knows you are so, so happy.
You gave me 3 1/2 years of beautiful smiles, laughs, happiness, and memories. You were the life giver to me – a sweet boy who was the centre of my world. I miss you every second of every day.
It was an honour to do this crazy adventure called life with you!
Love Always & Forever,
Mommy
Welcome To The World Noah
I remember July 11th, 2014 like it was yesterday. It was a Friday and after the labour pains started in the wee hours of the morning, we welcomed Noah Samuel Catto into the world at 11 am weighing 8 lbs 4 oz. His first breath took mine away. I had never experienced this kind of love before. All the sudden nothing else in life mattered. He was so tiny and made the sweetest baby sounds. I vividly remember the first time we put him in his bucket car seat to head home for the first time. He was so tiny and I was terrified we put him wrong. As I sat next to him in the backseat of the car I clearly remember crying out to God saying “God! I am SO scared. He is so tiny and fragile and I can’t do this on my own. I can’t screw this up. I need Your help!” I would do anything to go back and celebrate his birth, to hold him on my chest and give sweet kisses on his forehead.
The Party
As Noah’s birthday approached, anxiety and fear overtook most of my days. Will this be the last birthday party I throw for Noah? Do we sing Happy Birthday? Who will blow out the candle? What theme would he have chosen for his fifth birthday party? All these questions where like a whirlwind in my mind. The fear was as the years go on, less people would attend, less of a fuss would be made and the world would somehow have forgotten that on July 11th my world was made a million times better because this beautiful little boy entered my life.
A few months before we left for Orlando, Noah started to play Mario Kart with his daddy. This year he specifically asked for a Mario Kart birthday party. We made sure to honour that request.
