Samuel Talay Birecki

 You and I are getting along absolutely famously, we're playing superheroes every day, shooting lasers at each other from our hands. I'm almost always the Hulk, and you're either Captain America, Batman, or Spider-Man. We're also playing cars consistently, I'm always Dino car, and the bad guy. You are the hero.  But when I'm really impressed by is that I picked you up at your Montessori school one day, and you saw me and told me "wait daddy," and then proceeded to put your toy away neatly, and then came and ran and jumped into my arms. I was so impressed, and I love you so much. Mommy says I shouldn't have a favorite, but honestly right now you are it.

 Hi Sammy, I'm so sorry that I'm not going to be in Thailand for your third birthday. As you know, the family is now moving there. I think I went too fast, we should've all come home to Mexico. Here are photos and a video of you blowing out the candles on your third birthday cake at the Montessori school that you guys are going to. I miss you and I wish I was there to celebrate with you.

 So, you were born with a hydrocele that didn't seem to close as we were told was likely. That is a communication between the body and he scrotum that normally closes up on its own, so we took you to age 1.5 to have a surgery with a doctor in Mexico.  For 9 months it seemed like everything was great, but that your ballsack began to fill with fluid again. So we waited, took you back to the doctor, and Mommy said we should take you to Thailand and have a second surgery done there.  The good news is that we were able to close a communication on the other side that had developed. But regardless, it was scary to put you under the knife and anesthesia. Scary.  It turns out that you had scarring from the last surgery :( There was no communication between the body and the scrotum.  But for a month after the surgery we didn't ket you do anything. And you didn't feel like it either. But on July 25, before were leaving Bangkok for Phuket, we took you to the doctor again, a...

 Hi Sammy, here you are with your grandma, Nana Margie, playing catch with a football. For your age you're incredibly talented and good. 

 Well, Sammy, I hope you never know this in the future, but right now you have a Hydrocele, meaning that there is communication between your scrotum and abdomen, allowing in water.  You had a surgery to get it solved permanently, which seem to work over a year ago, but nine months later it returned, and now it is quite big. We are going to take you to Bangkok to have the second surgery done which I hope solves it permanently along with your other side, being filled with water as well. I am quite worried, but the good news is that the surgeon told us that it was a very simple procedure, so we will be going to Bangkok to have this done. The problem that I have is that you are such an active little boy, and like to play rough and tumble, and we are going to have to calm you down for about one month. It's not fun, but it needs to be done. We are doing this out of love, because the only thing that I can do is to make sure that you have the best possibilities to succeed in life, and...

  For whatever I lack as a father, please remember that I played with you. Here we are dancing in Puerto Vallarta, outside the mall.