When your 8 year old asks

for sushi for dinner, you supply sushi for dinner.

For Hannah and I.  Riley also sampled two pieces of fish.  

This was for Riley and Joshua, though Hannah and I enjoyed some. 

We all had a little of this too.  

I am thrilled my kids are such adventurous eaters! 

My Morning

     This morning Joshua was up bright and early.  He is my early riser and is normally up by 630 or 7.  This morning he was up before 6.  I try and get up early enough to write in my prayer journal and have one cup of coffee before any kids wake up.  However, when he's up before 6, it makes it awful hard for me to do that.
     So he's up, and were hanging out.  He's eating breakfast, I'm doing some online banking.  Riley is up by 7 and then we all move to the kitchen table to have breakfast.  Note this is Joshua's second breakfast.  This is a normal occurrence.  As we're sitting at the table, having our cereal, Riley starts crying.  When I ask why, she say's "because my nose is running!"  My daughter was crying over her breakfast because her nose was running.  A day that starts this way has to be good one, right!??!

Happy Birthday Hannah

Remember this baby:

I sure do.  She was 6 pounds of awesomeness.  And she changed my life.  And her dads.  

The sweet baby that didn't like the way grass felt, and would not crawl on it.  Unless forced, and then we all laughed at how funny she looked raying not to touch the grass.  

The baby who had her diaper changed on the streets of Venice. 

She was such a sweet baby.  

And now, she's a sweet 8 year old.  

Here's some pictures I snapped of her opening her gifts the morning of her birthday.  

We had her party on the 3rd.  

She got some puzzle type games and some books.  

She received some money.  With that she got a stencil kit and a jewelry making kit. 

And she received this jewelry box, that my dad made for her.  

She liked everything she received.  She didn't get any books that she already had, which is great!  She's already read, or at least started reading, most of the books she got.  

Here's to an unstoppable future sweet Hannah.