Bailee’s POV
‘Happy Birthday!’ I trill excitedly for the hundredth time, peppering kisses all over my son’s face as he tries to squirm away from me, giggling loudly.
‘Mommy! I’m a big boy now, you can’t do that’ he tells me firmly as I pretend to pout.
‘What no kisses?’ I ask, ‘not even bedtime ones? What about if you hurt yourself?’
Travis frowns as he thinks, ‘OK’ he sighs reluctantly, ‘you can do bedtime kisses, and kisses on boo boos, but not when my friends can see’ he adds quickly.
I look around the backyard of my parents’ house that closely resembles a warzone from the multitude of tiny pups that descended upon us to celebrate my little boy’s birthday.
Despite only being here a few weeks, Travis has managed to integrate himself with the other children quickly, the couple of t
