Birthday present

My son turned one recently. Our birthdays are in the same month, just a few days apart.

His birthday present to me was to sit on my lap at bedtime (as normal), while I read Goodnight Moon to him (as normal), carefully flipping the board book's pages in time to my reading (a first).

Sometimes it is a chore to be a parent. Sometimes it is a joy.

On his birthday it was a quiet delight.