Little Surprises

Hey Stink!

You are living up to your name tonight.  Jonathan has been cleaning the room you guys shared, still and always knows as "The Boys Room."  The things we have found....  you sure were a sneaky little boy!  Remember the house you promised to build me and make Katie and Jonathan live in the back yard because they are too messy?  Well Luke..... I guess it is good there isn't Nesquik and peanut butter in heaven.  And if there is, at least it won't mold when you hide them in the closet in your big house in the sky! 

We have parts of your Leap Pad, your 3DS and all of your animal hospital.  I have a large tote full of your clothes, you had more footie jammies than a Carter's outlet.

I am really proud of Jonathan, he is handling the cleaning a LOT better than I am.  He started a few weeks ago with Crackle, but Crackle has been on vacation, so Jon's surprise for him when he gets back is a completely clean room. Or at least as clean as a 10 year old can clean.

I am working on going back in the kitchen, but it is so hard Lukie.  Every time I go in there to cook, I hear your little squeaky voice asking what are you making, can I help, can I break the eggs, lick the bowl, put the cheese on.  You would bring me a cook book and tell me all the things we would make next.

Sometimes I think you are haunting Snowball.  He has decided whenever I sit in my chair, he has to sit on my chest and put his head on my shoulder.  Like you used to do.  You would sit on the arm of the chair and put your head on my shoulder.  I miss brushing your hair off your forehead and kissing your head. I miss you smelling like rainbows and butterflies after playing outside.  I miss you running across the room and throwing yourself in my arms for all you were worth.  

There is a huge hole where you are supposed to be baby.  I miss you so very much Lukie.  Some days the tears fall freely, like today.  Other days, the screams come from the depths of my soul, but there are no tears.  I can't help but wonder what the neighbors think as I scream in the shower.  Scream and wail.....

Next year you would be third grade.  Such a Big Boy bubby.  I think you would start being embarrassed about being my babybubberbutt.  But I am going to hold you to your promise that you will always be My BabyBubberButt.

I love you baby boy.  Tell Grandpa and Papaw and Great Granny and your brothers I love them and miss them too.

Mama

10 Months

It has been almost 10 months since you left baby boy.  That means it has also been almost a year since you ran across the room and threw yourself in my arms.  
There are no words to say how much I miss you little man. Some days it hurts to breathe, it takes everything I have to get up and get out of bed.  To cook supper and take care of your brother and sister.  It is so unfair that life keeps going on without you.  Doesn't the world know my baby boy is gone and everything should stop and wait with baited breath until Jesus comes back and I get to see you again?

School gets out in a few weeks, you should be finishing up the second grade and getting ready for the third grade.  I can't believe you would have been in the third grade in August!  The time since you were born has gone so fast.  I can only hope it continues to keep speeding along, the sooner I get old, the sooner I get to see you.

I love you so much Lukie!

May 8, 2014

     On May 8, 2014, Jonathan, Katie, Grandma and I celebrated Luke's 8th birthday by putting new flowers in the vase and releasing 8 bright, colorful balloons at his grave.  We left 2 Mylar balloons he would have loved.  I attached cards to the balloons we released and asked people to come here and put their first name and city and state where they found the balloon.  The pictures are out of order because I uploaded them from my phone at the cemetery.

  It is my hope all 8 balloon are found and counted here.

Happy Birthday Handsome

 Eight years ago on May 8, 2006, Luke Christopher Bernard Zimmerman was born screaming via emergency c-section.  The nurses who cleaned him up and checked his apgars jokingly asked if we had signed him up for Kindergarten yet.  My baby was 9lbs, 8 oz and 21 inches long.  He was a BIG boy!

 

 

 Katie and Jonathan both fell in love with their new little brother instantly.

He became Katie's baby and Jonathan's best friend.  Life with Luke was never boring,

Hiding in Cabinets

Robots out of Toy boxes

Hot wiring a Little Tikes Car

Heatwave 2012/Soccer Camp

Spaghetti his favorite meal

Last year, my baby boy turned 7.  This was the last birthday he would celebrate here on earth.  He finally received his coveted Nintendo 3DS and as a joke, eye patches for his lazy eye.  We went out to eat and came home where all three kids devoured his HotWheels birthday cake.

A few months later, he thought it was hilarious to text me from Jonathan's hand-me-down cell phone while standing in front of me.

What do you say?

What do you say to a parent who has lost a child? You say, “Hi.” You say you say, “I have been thinking about you.”  “I have been thinking about your child.” You ask about other family members. You listen when I talk about my child. You cry with me, and you aren't afraid of my tears. Sometimes crying with someone else is just the release I need. You laugh when I tell stories of my baby.  My son was a very smart and funny little boy and not a day goes by something does not remind me of a Luke story.  You say his name.