Post 3: LB – My #1 BFF

LB is coming home soon. I’m so excited to see him and to just hang out with him like old times. I miss him so much already and he’s only been away at college for a month. I miss just being able to watch TV with him. I miss watching Family Guy with him. I miss hearing him talk like Chris and Peter and making me laugh. No matter what mood I’m in LB can always make my laugh, or at least smile. I love him so much yet there are some times when he pisses me off and makes me so angry I could strangle him (out of love of course). We always forgive each other, well actually we usually forget why we even started fighting or one of us will say a funny movie quote and we will bust out laughing.

LB is 18 years old, he’s about 6 foot 4 inches and really strong (he can pick me up if that says anything about his strength) and he used to wrestle in high school and he plays rugby. Yet despite all of this I’m extremely protective of him. Even though he claims he’s the body guard in our little group (of the two of us). It’s funny but even though he’s 18 and over 6 feet tall I still see him as that tiny (if you consider 9lbs 4oz at birth to be tiny), red-faced, screaming child that I used to cover with a blanket hoping he’d disappear.

It’s funny to me how I’m the OLDER sister but he’s the BIG brother. I find not so funny things funny.

I guess now I know what my parents are going through with three grown children, one being a husband and a father. I guess I understand it a little bit now when my mum says to me “oh I remember when you were that little” or “I remember when you used to wear this” (as she shows me your typical mid-80′s outfit that resembles something Michelle Tanner wore in Full House). And now that I’m an Aunt I get to witness my niece grow from that tiny floppy newborn to a chubby, smiling, giggling, adorable little girl with a huge personality (she has her mothers patience and her fathers temper-not a good combo, at all). It truly is amazing, a miracle even.

So here’s to all the fun times we’ve had together LB and to the millions more that have yet to come.

 

This is LB in his Prom attire. I took this photo and it turned out to be one of my fave’s of LB.