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This is my beautiful redheaded "baby", Matthew at about 2 months old. (He will be 30 in February). He was a BIG newborn, weighing in at 10 lbs 12 ounces at birth! I tried a couple of new things on this. The little boy with the sailboat is a stamp that I've had FOREVER and never used..but had to have! LOL! I colored it with chalks. All the diamond shapes are pop dotted for a little added dimension. The embellie in the title work is a "flower" of sorts that I made by fanfolding a strip of paper and then glued the ends together to help form the "flower"...VERY time consuming! LOL! I tried to keep the layout "boyish" but couldn't resist adding the butterfly! Journaling is tucked behind the top of the photo and reads:

Matthew, you are my baby boy. It doesn't matter if you're almost 30 years old; you're still my baby boy. You were our surprise baby. In 1978, your Daddy and I were living in Tennessee. In May of that year, your Daddy got a promotion that meant moving to Fayetteville, Georgia. We had the girls – Traci had just turned 3 and Kimmer was about 18 months old. We were planning to have one more child, but we had thought we'd wait until after the move and we got settled in. But it seems that God had other plans for us, and I am so thankful for that. We found out that we were expecting you about two weeks before your Daddy died. So, he did know that we were expecting a baby, and he even told me that this was “our boy.” We had decided on the name Matthew several years before you were born. I decided to name you Matthew Allen, so that you would have part of your Daddy with you always. Your Daddy would be so proud of the man that you've become. I watch you with your children now, and I see a lot of your Daddy's personality in you. You're a wonderful Daddy to Allen and Helen Grace, and I'm proud of you too. I love you…and you will always be my “baby boy.”
Matthew Allen – Age 2 months – April 1979
Journaling – January 2009


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