James Huntington Watkins

Born January 14, 2003

Hunter is terminally ill with Infantile NCL

better known as Batten's Disease

Nicholas & Hunter nap together for the 1st time

OUR LITTLE BOY WHO DOES NOT CRY

By  “Papaw” Dean Beaty   2/18/07

(While Hunter was at deaths door)

 

For a little boy who is four years old.

He has suffered more, but most is untold.

This is very strange and I don’t know why.

I have never seen little Hunter cry.

 

“Hasn’t he fallen and then scrapped his knee?”

No, he cannot stand and he cannot see.

So he never runs, though he’d love to try.

He’s a special child, but he does not cry.

 

He has had his shots and the pain is there.

For unknown reasons he’s able to bare.

Maybe so mommy isn’t hurt it’s why,

He just does not scream and he does not cry.

 

When he was little he’d jump on my knee,

And smile with delight and laugh with such glee.

But then it all changed and no one knows why.

He still has his smile but he just doesn’t cry.

 

It’s not to imply that he’s never sad.

But he is so good, he couldn’t be bad.

But we’ve all seen this, a tear in his eye,

But not a whimper and never a cry.

 

I know that someday, God wipes away tears.

They’ll all then be gone, all sorrows and fears.

But for our Hunter, our God fortified.

That while in this life, he just doesn’t cry.

 

Hunter & Tyler.....Alexis & Nicholas

 

 

Hunter & Nicholas sharing a pacifier.....Now Hunter wants it back.....Waaaaaaaa!

 

Kim, Jim, & Hunter Watkins

 

Grandma Mommy with Hunter & Nicholas 2003

 

Cousins Nicholas & Hunter 2003

 

Nicholas, Aunt Laura, & Hunter

 

Hunter's Beautiful Smile 2003

 

Hunter & Nicholas

 

Hunter, Aunt Laura, & Nicholas

 

The whole gang

 

Hunter & Nicholas

 

Nicholas, Papaw, & Hunter 2003

 

All of the cousins together

 

The Beaty's 40th Anniversary

 

Dean & Gladys Beaty's 40th Anniversary

 

All the Grandchildren at the 40th Anniversary

 

The Watkins Family

 

Nicholas, Carolyn, & Hunter 2004

 

Hunter is Mr. Cool

 

Everyone at the pool

 

Nicholas & Hunter 2004

 

 

Hunter

 

Hunter July 2005

 

 

Hunter & Kim December 2005

 

 

Lydia & Hunter 2005

 

The Cousins

 

Laura & Hunter

 

Lydia & Hunter December 2006

 

Hunter & Lydia July 2007

 

The Petterson Family

 

The Clay Family