My son Shea and Giacomo grew up 10 months apart which is ironic because that’s just about how far apart Mary and I are in age and we have watched each other grow up, just as we were watching our son’s grow up. Mary & I were both late starters into motherhood and both had only one son, that we cherished every wonderful moment with. I was lucky enough to share in some of those wonderful moments with Giacomo. When our son’s were young we would get them together a few times a year to play, and do fun things with them. We took them to the zoo, picked pumpkins at the pumpkin patch, and let them run on playgrounds. We had sleepovers, and before bed, we would bath them, taking pictures so we could later tease them when they were in high school about how adorable they both were. When Giacomo and Shea were really young, my son Shea could not say Giacamo, so he would call him Mo Mo, but he also called his Elmo, Mo Mo, so we had to come up with a way to distinguish the two, especially when Shea would stay the night and take his Mo Mo to Gaicamo’s house and so this is where Giacomo got his nickname we always had for him and that was G or G-man which my son later asked me how did G-man get such a cool name? Its like a super hero. I had to explain to Shea that was not his real name but you could not say his real name when you were really little so that was the name we gave him, he then decided he too wanted to have a superhero name like Giacomo. I always said Giacomo’s superpower was his love of life, he loved life and everyone in it, and isn’t that a superpower we all would like to have. He had one other superpower and that was his trademark smile, when Giacomo would smile at you, you wanted to give him the world, and I think this is why his parents Mary and Jeff did just that. I always wanted to tell him it was working, look at the amazing life Giacomo lived in his short time on this earth. He got to see the world and took his superpower with him where ever he went……that Smile and his love of life. I always looked forward to that smile at our annual lunches at the Rainforest cafe as Giacomo was growing up, he was changing fast, but that smile remained the same. When I think of Giacomo now, I remember not only the love we had for him, but the love he always gave, and especially the love he had for both of his parents Mary and Jeff…… and of course I’ll always see that smile. As I sit here wishing (as we all do) that we could watch Giacomo grow into the wonderful, handsome, loving man we all knew he was always going to be, I’ll take the consolation prize of thinking he is smiling down on all of us, with his big heart that was filled with love, the love he not only got from his parents Mary & Jeff, but from all of us.
It really was your super power G-man because the love you gave, and that trademark smile is left imprinted on our hearts forever.
Forever remembering you…….
Carrie Silveria-Kirby