Happy 7th birthday John!

Lucky 7 here we are, Happy birthday to my sports loving, long sock wearing, adorable Johnny.  I hope you have a wonderful day at camp and enjoy our baseball game tonight.  You were so excited when you heard you get to play baseball on your birthday!  We will get the win for you.

You definitely love sports.... anything with a ball.  I'm not sure what your favorite sport is, because I think it changes once you are playing the sport.  You are rocking baseball.  It's so fun watching you cheer your team on.  You love to pitch and now you say you like to catch too.  You like to take the mask off to get ready for the play at home.  I think it no time, you will catch the pop up to the catcher, I can envision it now...... batter hits the pop up, you quickly take off the helmet, look up and let the ball fall into the glove.  You would definitely get the game ball ;-)  You have done a great job at pitching with your strike outs.  And now when we play catch, sometimes my hand hurts afterwards.  You really have an arm on you.  I absolutely love playing catch with you, my back doesn't, but I do.   I love being outside with both of you.  On Tuesdays game you bunted for the first time and got to first.  Nice job, buddy.

You just started bowling on Monday.  You already have a high score of 77, way to go!  You are trying to figure out how you should throw it but either way, you are already doing an amazing job, oh and you picked up a spare!  Go you!

Football starts in a couple of months, I bet you can't wait for that.  I can't wait to see my QB in action.

You still love to draw and make books.  You are quite the artist and have such a creative mind.  I love seeing your pictures and your writing.  Not only do you like to make books, but you like to read too.  I love hearing your sweet voice read out loud.

Your favorite food still is tacos.  When I make tacos, you go to town eating them.  I think you'd eat the 1lb of meat if I'd let you.  You have opened up a bit with your eating, you will eat chicken and you like meatloaf (who knew, although it's just like a cheeseburger ;-) )  You love pancakes, burgers, brats, spaghetti, grapes, apples with peanut butter, monkey yogurt, mixing your cereal, and so much more.

You love to watch sports too.  You like to watch the Cubs, the Bulls,the Bears, any Michigan team (just like daddy).  You like to play sports games on the Xbox.  You know all of the players and know what team they are on.  That cracks me up.  How can you do that?!?!

You love the play outside, whether its riding your bike, your scooter, playing basketball, 2 square, playing catch, playing with the big kids in the neighborhood. 

You are such a sweet boy and I am lucky to be your mom.  I love hanging out and cuddling with you. I hope you have the best birthday ever!  We look forward to celebrating you today (and over the weekend)!

Austin is 8!

 Happy 8^th birthday to my sweet Austin.  How in the world are you 8 already?  I want you to have the most wonderful birthday ever!  You definitely deserved to be spoiled on your most special day and lucky you, it’s on a Saturday. 

You have finally lost 4 teeth this past year.  You thought it would never happen and look what happened.  Here you are waiting for your 2 top front teeth to come in.  When they do, you will look so much more grown up.  I can’t wait to see.

You love to eat steak, daddy’s burgers, brats, ribs, SHRIMP, hot dogs, avocado (you are my avocado buddy) chicken, pork, pancakes, spaghetti, grapes, cucumber, watermelon, cookies, donuts, muffins.  I’m so happy that you will usually try something and don’t just stick your nose up at it.

You are a bowling rock star!  I’m so glad we found something that you enjoy doing.  140 is your high score and personally I think that is AMAZING. You received 4 trophies and a sweatshirt this year for rocking it at bowling. Your dad and I are so proud of you and your accomplishments.  I can’t wait to see how you grow in bowling.  This next tournament you will rock it!  Keep up the hard work.

Baseball, you have come so far in such a short period of time.  When you set your mind to something, great things happen.  You have been doing great with practicing and you are just getting better.  5 for 6 hits in the last 3 games (you did hit the ball the 6^th time but someone got out so it doesn’t count).  Way to go!  In the beginning of the season, you were so afraid to catch the ball, you told me to go easy on you, and now look at you!  Catching, throwing and hitting.  I LOVE watching you play ball.  Football starts in a couple of months and I can’t wait to watch you then too.  You are growing into a well-rounded sports star!

reading to Buster

School went very well this year too.  You are reading chapter books, you know how to add and subtract 3 digit numbers and multiply, you are great at spelling too. It’s always great to hear about all the things you learn at school.  We loved reading your weekend news, it was always fun to read about your bowling scores, if you won in basketball, who you played with over the weekend.  You are such a creative writer.  I can’t believe you are going into 3^rd grade.  I can’t even begin to imagine what you are going to learn in 3^rd grade.  Even though you can sometimes be obsessed with the chromebook, I really do believe it has helped with your learning.  Having math and spelling games has helped you so very much.

 

You love to watch sports too.  You like to watch the Cubs, the Bulls,the Bears, any Michigan team (just like daddy).  You like to play sports games on the Xbox.  You know all of the players and know what team they are on.  That cracks me up.  How can you do that?!?!

You love the play outside, whether its riding your bike, your scooter, playing basketball, 2 square, playing catch, playing with the big kids in the neighborhood, although lately, you say playing at the park is boring.  That makes me sad, I didn’t think you’d be done with the park so soon.  

You love cuddling with Buster and Brady.  I know Buster loves to cuddle with you too.  Brady will get there.  He is just too into everything to cuddle just yet.  I love how you are with them.  You love to look into their eyes, to pet them, and to play with them.  They are lucky to have you.

 I want you know to know that we love you so much.  You are such a happy and great kid.   We will celebrate you all day and love every minute of it.  You have asked to go see Captain Underpants, BWW and to have Rootbeer Floats as your dessert treat.

I just asked you, what is your favorite thing to do and you said, “Spending time with my family”, you make my heart happy when you say nice things like that!

 

Daddy, John David and I want to wish you the happiest of birthdays.  We love you so much and hope you enjoy your special day.  Can't wait to make 8 great with you.  Happy birthday, buddy!