Six has been a long year - it feels like a lifetime ago that we were celebrating the end of you being five, just the six of us in our house as we were in full lockdown. This year your world has opened back up and we are free to see friends and family. As a six year old you welcomed your new baby brother with love and affection and became the 'middlest of the middles', with two younger and two older siblings.
When I look back at what I wrote last year, so much of it I just want to repeat because you are that same boy, just taller, smarter and louder. You are so intelligent, so capable and so desperate to learn, but only on your terms. You still love music and feel it in your whole body, and you are currently planning for a career as a ninja. You are determined, focused and I have no doubt you will get where you want to be, one way or another. You are head strong, stubborn and know what you want. You aren't always (ever) easy to parent, you push me to my limits, but loving you is so rewarding and I am forever grateful to be your Mummy.
Every year on this day I like to look back at pictures of how small and poorly you were, to think over what the doctors told us as we sat in special care and to remember the journey we have been on together.
Finn, you are a force of nature. You are vibrant, confident, overflowing with personality and the world needs to be ready for you. You frustrate me regularly but you make me proud just as often. I hope you never stop being so unreservedly yourself. You have come so far, you have proved everyone wrong and I will take a moment tomorrow to really remember what an amazing little person you are.
Happy Birthday baby boy, Happy Birthday Finn. You are loved more than I ever knew you could be