Our little miracle is 9!

How did that happen so fast? I definitely agree with the saying that the days may be slow but the years are fast. I was talking with a friend tonight about C's first days and those were definitely long. The longest moments in my life might have been the few minutes between when I woke up after C-section waiting until they got a doctor to talk to me. Long scary moments. And those first few days were long scary days. But now it's gone so fast! Although I'd never heard of vasa previa before C's birth, I'll definitely never forget it. The link to C's story isn't working tonight but I hope it will be soon.

Birthday celebration #1 Grandma and Pops Leon brought cake and presents!

We are so blessed and so thankful to have our not so little boy. Over the years we've done different things to celebrate how thankful we are for our little blessing and to remember those families' who lost their little ones. We did not do a Sophie's Walk last year- maybe this week we will. I do like reading over the ones' we've done in the past like C's 5th birthday or several others over the years.

For C's birthday the last bunch of years we've been in the OBX. We would have loved to be back there this year but God had other plans for us this year :) We missed James and wished he could have been here but we had a good day. We had a "normal" morning- Bible reading and verses, morning chores, breakfast, math, rotations- then did some cleaning. Lunch, playtime, naps, and it was time to decorate and get ready. C filled the pinata, KG made potato salad, T and K iced the cake C made yesterday and all the kids put up Lego Star Wars decorations. Well Big Girl napped which was a great help!

At 3 the kids began their countdown until friends arrived- not a lot of friends. We usually do just family but told C he could invite a few boys over for his birthday this year. C was excited about the dinner menu and games posted it on the white board:

At 4:05 I thought I might have to text everyone to see where they were, but thankfully 4:06 someone arrived- so exciting! The other family arrived soon after and then we had lots of happy boys and one happy girl- well two if you count Big Girl nicely napping. Although it was cold out, the kids played outside until they were starving and then had dinner, cake, and presents.

C got a ton of lego star wars sets and no duplicates! He was so excited.

 After presents, pinata time.

 Then trading time- I didn't get a pic but all 8 boys and 2 sweet girls built legos and traded pinata goodies so nicely.
 I did get this pic of the menu K and C posted for the Star Wars party

 And a pic (yes it's dark) but they listed the games they wanted to play. But they had so much fun just playing with friends that they didn't do any of the games.

 They did spend a lot of time that night putting lots of legos together.

A super birthday party for my favorite 9 year old son!