Eight is great!

As of today, we have another eight year old in the house! He's been looking forward to this day for a long time;)  Two weeks ago, he was excited to go to church to see if his birthday was listed in the church bulletin.  I told him it would be another week before it would be in there, so yesterday before church he mentioned that HIS NAME WOULD BE IN THE BULLETIN!!!   It was the saddest thing.  We got there and he grabbed a bulletin and started searching through it.  Then he dejectedly handed it to me with tears in his eyes.  They had every birthday but his:( How ironic that he was probably the only one that it mattered to, and his was the only one missing.

We sure love this boy!  Today was pretty low key, but we tried  to make him feel special.  He and I made and dropped off birthday party invitations for the friend party that he will have later in the week, Shawn and I took him out to lunch, and we had gifts, cake and ice cream with the family.