Keepsake

Today George had another wonderful day. He feels great. All praise and glory to God. It’s blowing my mind how well he has been taking this. I know these good days will most likely come to an end very soon but for now we will rejoice in praise and enjoy these happy times.   I decided to go ahead and get a little keepsake from George today.  Just like with my girl’s first haircuts (both at the age of 4) I save a little lock of their hair as a sweet reminder of what it was like when they were little. Since George will start to lose his hair over the next few days I wanted to go ahead and get it done. I really hope this little blonde hair grows back just the same because it sure is cute. Whatever grows back will  be adorable though because it’s not the hair but the boy that truly is the cuteness.



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