One Handsome Young Man

My Daniel is one very sweet and very special guy. He has blessed me with his unending love since the day he was born. Daniel is now 10 1/2 years old and is just blossoming into a very nice young man. Remembering back to when Daniel was born and the personality God gave him warms my heart. Daniel wanted his mom and that is pretty much it, as long as he was with me, on my hip, all was well. But then, one day...everything changed...that was the year 2004 when we moved to Iowa and he started kindergarten. I couldn't reel him back in because he just wanted to play and wrestle; that blessed my heart to see him having so much fun and loving to play with his friends. He has now ventured out to Panora to have sleepovers with his cousins without his big brother tagging along...lol...

Daniel loves to swim in the summer and just recently learned how to play tennis. He also wants to learn how to golf. He loves to be outdoors (that is when he is no longer allowed on video games, ie...ds, wii, xbox 360 and game cube) and play with all of his friends on our street; there are about 17 kids that live on our block. He is in the midst of it all and all of the kids love Daniel. He is very gentle and caring with the young kids on our street. Once winter comes, then the sleds come out, the snow boots/clothing and hot chocolate awaits him when he comes in.

He is going into fifth grade this year and is already contemplating which Bible characters he will be doing his independent study on. At his point, it's going to be Daniel, Joshua, Nathan or Jonathan and Jesus. I know he will be a fantastic fifth grader as he learns to switch classrooms, joing 23rd Street Singers and continue on in his second year of orchestra playing the cello. We are anxious to listen to his concerts and performances.

He is a leader at church amongst his friend in the children's ministry. He loves to worship the Lord and study the Word. He is a thinker and although he is quiet, he gives much thought and attention to all that is taught.

He looks very much like his daddy when Steve was a young boy. He has his dad's disposition and sweet nature.

Atttached is a video from Daniel's last orchestra performance.