I'll always bear your burden...

Dear Nicky,

I just put you down after soothing one of your whining attacks that you sometimes get in the first part of the evening. You whine and you snuffle like you're having a nightmare. If it's not too bad I leave you alone and you soon return to your normal, peaceful sleep. Other times, it escalates to the point where I as a father have to come to the aid of my child. So while I was relaxing you just now, I told you that your father is always with you, and that I'll always bear your burden, happily, gratefully. Whatever I can help you with in this life, my son, I will. In case you didn't know it, you're an amazing boy. Yesterday at the end of the day I was too wiped out to write much, and I have to go to sleep soon, but just let me say how well you did in OT yesterday, and at Stones this morning, and with your ST this afternoon. Tonight for dinner I made us breaded fried chicken cutlets with broccoli and couscous. It didn't take long at all and it came out very nice. You ate an entire chicken cutlet. Mom would put a piece on your tray and you would pop it into your mouth. One time you even dropped a piece onto your cushion, yet you found it, picked it up, and ate it. You're very special.

Love,
Dad