A Birthday Weekend in the Snow!

Happy Birthday Eric!

On Friday, January 9th, you turned 5 years old ... a whole hand! It's so hard for me to believe 5 years has gone by already. It seems like yesterday, they handed me to you in the hospital -- a tiny, soft, and beautiful baby. Today, you are a handsome, active and healthy boy. I praise God every day that I get to be your mom. And I praise him for the boy that he made you to be.

To celebrate your day we started in the morning with new Spiderman tattoos (not my idea, yours!) and a cool Lightning McQueen Ribbon that said "Birthday Champ." You walked into school with your arms out so your friends could see your tattoos, while you talked a mile a minute telling them all about your birthday. Later in the day, I brought homemade cupcakes to your school with red icing and black spiderwebs and spiders on top. We passed them out and everyone sang Happy Birthday to you! We came home and relaxed for a little while before going out to Red Robin for your Birthday dinner. Our friends, The Wallaces, came with us. You opened presents at the restaurant -- you received a Football Kicker Game from the Wallaces, Money from Granny and Grampa Smith, and an Alien Spacehip Martian Matter Alien Maker from your mom and dad. You will have more gifts to open through the weekend and a party at Mimi and Papa's house on Sunday (if it stops snowing!). After dinner the waitresses sang a cool birthday song to you and brought you balloons and an ice cream sundae. It was totally awesome ... as you like to say. I hope it was a special day for you to remember!

Today ... it snowed. And it has been glorious. We are cozy and snug inside, cleaning house and playing with new birthday and Christmas toys. I wish there were more days like this ... to just be content with where we are and what we have ... nowhere to go and nothing to buy and not much else that needs to be done. We have made lots of little aliens and then cut them up to see their gooey guts! Now that makes a mama proud!

I'll write more about tomorrow's party and maybe even have pictures ... if I remember the camera. It's a good thing I'm writing about Eric's childhood because I'm not very good at remembering to capture Kodak moments of it!