{today at school - awards ceremony} possible titles for this picture.
colin 'the man' sippel
colins got the whole world in his arms.
colin loves everybody.
the sippel gene
awards ceremony at school - 3rd quarter.
cafeteria action at 8am.
taelyn. colin. emily & grayson.
ms. morgans first graders.
dog tags rock.
this is today.
filled with first grade memories.
filled with a shock of reality that time does truly fly by faster than one can imagine.
filled with the ticking of not seconds, not minutes, not hours, not days, not weeks, not months but years.
i can't remember yesterday.
i can only remember yesteryear.
it seems as like colin was just born on a cold february morning in buffalo.
i can see him as a baby just going with the flow.
he probably spent more hours in a car seat that allowed by law.
he loved chocolate timbits.
he had an ambulance ride when he was two? three?
he went to speech therapy.
we went to mommy & me class together.
he was an angel on a long plane ride here when he was almost four.
he kept me going thru those first couple crazy texas months.
kindergarten & school bus rides to union hill.
flag football games. basketball games. riding a bicycle.
curly colin.
loosing teeth. loosing curls.
first grade homework. helping arriton everyday at lunch.
lego. lego. lego.
yesteryear.
a flash.
this is now.
time speeding by.
me trying to catch a glimpse of it here. in pictures. in words.
today i caught a second of it.
and put it down in pictures and words.
