Its Birthday week at our house!

Yesterday was J's birthday! My big boy is now 6. Wow. Life goes by so fast. We celebrated his birthday last Monday as a family. We went to Sunsplash to ride the water slides and had A BLAST! We had so much fun riding on the rides together. We did leave S at my sister's house, so it was just the 4 of us. That made for some fast riding, fun times. We are going to do it again towards the end of the summer.

We have a tradition in our house for birthdays. The birthday person gets to choose what he or she wants to eat for all 3 meals for the day. J chose:

Cocoa Pebbles for breakfast (nutritious AND delicious :)

left over shrimp scampi noodles from dinner the night before for lunch

Steak and steamed white rice for dinner....

Except his dinner plans got cramped a little, but we worked it out. We got invited over to Brian's parents house for dinner because is brother and their family was in from out of town. SO, we compromised. We cooked him a steak and he ate it AT their house, while everyone else had really yummy carnitas tacos (courtesy of Matt and Val) for dinner. It was a great night.

We actually celebrated Brian's birthday and J's and S's. Yeah, that's right. Another birthday post is coming up later on in the week. Like I said, its that time of year for us. A week of birthdays!!

What I LOVE about J:

His funny sense of humor. He's funny ALL THE TIME. Even when he doesn't mean to be funny.

His kind heart. I love that my son has a soft, kind heart. He's a great kid now, and he is going to be a great man someday.

His love for his family. He is sweet and tries hard to make good choices. He loves his sisters and tries to protect them, but not always. He is a brother, after all!

He is a smarty pants. He is always trying to learn new things. Loves school. Loves learning. Of course, he just finished kindergarten. Hope that love of learning keeps up for a long time to come!

I hope your birthday was a great one, my little man!