Today our son Nathaniel turned 8. Yesterday monring he came to my room quite eraly and with a smile informed me “Daddy, today I am seven and tomorrow… I become a man!” He went on to say “Daddy, Do you know how you acan tell if your a man?” I was all ears ” You become a man when all of your baby teeth fall out.” Not bad insight. Of course he was reminded by his older brother that he STILL has some more baby teeth to loose – so – it seems for Nathaniel that manhood is still a few teeth away.
Fortunately this did not hinder our celebration and a brief party which included about 100 of the children from the home.