first freckle

I looked down yesterday afternoon and there on Grant's right leg is a freckle. Just one, hanging out on it's own as if to say -- "here is the start of something new!" I know it sounds crazy, but I find it amazing... fascinating really. I want to document it, put it in his baby book or give it a kiss -- it's his first ever freckle-- probably he will have hundreds over the span of his life, surely he will grow old and wrinkled and his skin will be swimming with freckles of various shapes and sizes. But I will remember a time when there was just one perfectly brown dot spotting a little bitty leg and a whole canvus of unspotted skin, waiting to be painted.