This is what I'm giving you for PJ's birthday!

Don't Grow Up Too Fast

I was helping my little boy make his first batch of blue cookies. Percy, being the stubborn boy he is, kept saying, "Mommy! You can go now. I can make the cookies all by myself." It was his fifth birthday and we were making sure to have a wonderful day while Gabe was at his poker-buddy, Eddie's apartment.

For breakfast, we made my famous dish of blue pancakes with eggs and bacon. Percy didn't even let me cut them and drizzle syrup before he attacked them with his hands.

I adored my son. When he would try to dress himself up for school, he would stop on our way out, say he forgot something, and run into his room. When he came back, a pair of his underwear would be on his head and Gabe would make some idiotic remark. I'd ask why and he would reply, "I can't be a big boy without everyone seeing my big-boy-underwear! Duh, Mommy!" Of course I would never let him go out the house with that get-up. I wished his father could have shared all these moments with me, making them all the more precious.

Percy was rolling the cookie dough in his hands, trying to make them a perfect sphere. I laughed at my little Son of the Sea's antics. I knew he would wind up lessening the amount of chocolate chips there would be in each cookie, so I gently took the dough from his hands and placed it on the tray. I looked up from the baking pan and up into my son's sea-green eyes that he inherited from his father. The eyes that broke my heart and fixed it at the same time, had confusion written across his them. I nodded slightly at him and took a bit of dough, showing him what to do.

"See, sweetheart? It's that easy." I said with a smile on my face.

Percy was now standing on his toes on the step-stool puckering his lips at me with his eyes closed. I smiled even wider at my boy and leaned down so he could kiss my cheek. Once he did, he grinned and said, "Thank you, Mommy."

I furrowed my brow; it was my turn to be confused. "What for, Percy?" I asked, putting the cookies in the oven.

"For you." Him just saying that made my heart melt. I could only hope my little starfish would never forget this moment in time. If I had knew that was going to happen, I would have recorded it.

"Percy?" I asked

"Yes, Mommy?"

"Could you do me a favor?"

"Okay!" He exclaimed.

I had a small smile on my face.

"Don't grow up too fast."

The one-shot's over... Goodbye for now... See you in Student Photographer and We Could Have Been Amazing.

BTW, when school starts, I'll be working more on updating on We Could Have Been Amazing when school starts. So that's a week from now. BE PREPARED!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PERSEUS JACKSON!

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