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Tomorrow (I guess it's really today) is Austin's 20th birthday! How the hell did my kids get so OLD? He was born at 8pm on the dot. I can't even tell you how cute he was. Well, when he was born he was soooooooooo ugly! They induced my labor after I'd spent a week in the hospital, so when they finally rushed me in for a c-section I was so relieved. God, his head was lumpy!!! 8lbs 14oz and 22.5in long.

He was such a good baby and was always laughing. I remember when he was about 2 years old he just became this big ball of energy and LOVED his Hot Wheels. He still has all those damn cars! He was just the absolute sweetest kid I've ever seen. Here are a few pictures of him... they are totally grainy because I just grabbed them and snapped pictures of the pictures with my digital camera because I still have my scanner undone.

Here he is about 8 hours after he was born. My GOD look how big his head is!!! My mother said his hair would fall out. It never did. When I look at him here I can't help but think the look oon his face is like, "Wha.... what the hell just happened here????" haa

This is his 1st birthday. He was already in the 110% in height!! That day signaled BiG changes for him, including moving out of his crib to a regular bed. He always went to bed at his bedtime and stayed there until I got him out of his room in the morning.

This was the Christmas after he turned a year old. Look how miserable "Santa" looks! HAAAAAA

He was about 18 months old. My grandmother had given him a stuffed dinosaur from the movie The Land Before Time. He didn't know it was from that movie so he named it Dino (instead of the correct Littlefoot!)

Here he is AGAIN with Dino, but he's 14 or 15 in this picture! (I have a thing with taking pictures of my kids asleep- too cute!) Dino, still today, sits on Austin's bed... if you can find it.

His first year of football. He was 5. He was a linebacker and LOVED to hit the kid with the ball!

A couple of cute pics of him... The picture on the left was taken when he was about 3 1/2. He looked so much older, though. The picture on the right was taken when he was 7. Good GOD look at his HUGE choppers in that picture!! His baby teeth had been so small and then these MASSIVE perm teeth came in. We had to wait almost two more years before they'd put his braces on and he had to have those for three years!

Austin and Ryan on the couch at my parents house. This picture doesn't capture Ryan's face as she watches him TRY to play Grandpa's guitar. Love it! Ryan was wearing her Aladdin dress. I cannot even describe how hard it was to pry that dress from her. She'd wear it every day if I didn't DEMAND she give it up to be washed. God DAMN it was a fight every day!!!!

This is one of my favorite pictures of him. He was dressed and ready for Prom, calling to see if his girlfriend was FINALLY ready.

And recently, with his girlfriend Lindsay

Is it just me, or does he sort of look Chinese when he was little? I've never noticed that before.

So the pictures are horrible, but you get the idea... hopefully. Happy Birthday, Austin! I love you with all my heart.