Birthdays

Your birthday was just what it should be full of...birthday cakes, cousins and lots of your favorite things! Thanks to your grandparents you are equipped with another hundred pokemon cards. However, a couple days ago an older friend of yours gave you a stash of football, baseball, and hockey cards. Now I need to send a memo to your Pittsburgh or Uncle that a Sydney Crosby card might need to make its way into your life!

Bowling. We were able to squeeze a family bowling night in. (Well, dad was missing) It sure was fun. Julia picked up her bowling speed and you were able to launch one into the other lane! Thank goodness it didn't interfere with Aunt Jen's STRIKE that was taking place. And lucky for us we didn't have to call the clerk to come and get it out because Uncle Agustin scooted it right on out with his gutter ball

As for the cake...it didn't quite look like the cakes my grandmother made for me. It served its purpose none the less.

I am thankful that we celebrate your birthday one month early because I'm' not quite ready for you to turn 7.

At the age of seven you crave time with your friends. You load your backpack until it is almost as heavy as you. It is full of over $100 in pokemon cards (and I'm not worried) and now your baseball and football cards. Oh wait, not to mention the pair of shoes, hat and gloves.
You laugh the entire time you play hockey with us in your room. (Even when I'm trying to beat you).
Your dad got us a used foosball table so we can have more activities to do, and you jump the entire time and are teaching your sister the annoying sport cheers when you score goals!
You are reading the world around you and not super confident in figuring out the long words. You are interested in your first family chapter book, The Littles, and I couldn't be happier.
You sing KIDS BOP songs and I wish I could record every minute of it.
At Hockey you are a true player...you work hard and are the first to try to score and recover any missed shot.
You can dress yourself for hockey and enjoy your time on the ice.
You are curious, and your curiosity got you and your friend throwing rocks on the ice at the first sign it froze.

As for seven years, I'm pretty sure it's the best seven years your dad and I have had. It's made us a family, it has given us purpose and fun. Love you more than you know.