(A reminder: the quotes and personal history excerpts won't always go with the pictures.)
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Age 3 quotes: That's just what boys do.
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I'm not Garrett Dale, I'm Garrett Carson!
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Age 4 quotes: You make us do all the work in the house.
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I guess I'll just die when I'm six 'cause then I'll be old.
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Mom: Why is Paul your best friend?
Garrett: Because he has shoes like mine.
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I can't marry Dominique because how would I speak to a German wife?
(Dominique was a German girl in Garrett's pre-school class that he had a crush on. The pre-school teacher told me that Garrett had told Dominique she was beautiful.)
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Age 5 quote: I don't think it's fair that girls get to wear pants and dresses but boys only get to wear pants.
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Age 8, February 14, 1993: on a Valentine he gave to Lissa: I just like you in every way. One way is...you are my nicest sis I have. (not to mension the quietest!)
Age 9, August 25, 1993: on a paper he wrote on the first day of 4th grade: I would like to try to do better in the area of: speeling. I plan to do this by: praktis frum time to time.
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Memory of Garrett: I started giving Garrett piano lessons when he was seven. I told him he needed to practice each of his assigned songs five times every day. He's the only one of my students who figured out to play each note in the song five times in a row, then say he'd practiced the song five times!
When Garrett was about five I started filling out an "all about me" page for him every year. Almost every year he answered the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?" by saying "in the air force" or "an air force pilot".
We're so happy that his life-long ambition is about to be fulfilled as he begins his U. S. Air Force officer training and flight school in the next few months.
Happy Birthday, Garrett!
We love you!
4 comments:
Happy birthday, little brother! You were so cute when you were little.
Those are such cute quotes! I also like his boy scout uniform! :)
Russ wonders why you didn't just let Garrett wear dresses.
My only other response is that when Garrett was 8 years old, he hated me.
What fun to read that! I am relieved to find out Niki is not the only boy that thinks its unfair he can't wear a dress!
How sweet! Did you keep a personal history for all your kids? That is amazing. How fun to look back on all the cute things they said and did. That was definitely a creative way to practice piano!
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