Happy Birthday, Barnabas!

On July 6th Barnabas turned 6 years old!

Happy 6th Birthday, Barnabas!!!!!!

We had a special breakfast of eggs, sausage, and cinnamon rolls to begin our day of celebrating. Hadassah helped prepare everything for the birthday boy. Later we headed to Chick-fil-a for lunch and playing in the playground. When we got home, Grandma arrived for a visit. She was headed to Florida and stopped by to help celebrate! We played games in the afternoon and rested a bit. Then, we had dinner, dessert, and opened presents! The next day Grandma went swimming with us and we had a picnic at the pool. It was fun!

Barnabas has amazed us all with his natural love and ability for learning. Over the summer, he really excelled in reading! He was doing great last year in Kindergarten, learning sounds and reading words. Then, all of the sudden, he was reading chapter books! He just started reading everything he could get his hands on! We are so proud of him!

Barnabas is such a sweet, little man. He loves to talk and has a vivid imagination. He is a big help at home with his chores, and he is gaining more responsibility as he proves he can handle it. He and Jeremiah are best buddies and love to play for hours in their room with cars and roads. Barnabas also loves to join in with his older brothers and play games, when they allow him. ;o)

We just noticed a couple of weeks ago that he has his first loose tooth! He is excited, but doesn't like to wiggle it! So, it may take forever to fall out!

Barnabas is playing soccer again this fall. He is on the Mavericks, and really seems to enjoy himself. It appears that he likes the social part of being on a team more than the physical part of playing soccer! There is a teenage assistant coach on his team, and he seems kinda sweet on her. It's cute....for now. ;o)

Our family is so thankful that God blessed us with Barnabas! He is such a little sweetheart, and lives up to his name of "encourager".

I found this link to a labor day post and it talks about all of our first 6 deliveries. Barnabas was so content with staying in my uterus, he was 12 days late! He was worth the wait!

Back to blogging....

I'm really behind in blogging!  It's my goal to get caught up on some birthday posts...soon.  We've had 4 since I last posted!    Here is a preview of the first birthday post. (Mobile blogging for the first time)

Kangaroos

Do you remember this post WAY back in April? Well, I said that I had three posts....here is the third one, finally! (We did celebrate on his actual birthday, I'm just very tardy in putting it up here. I've been having a little guilt about it, so here we go!)

On April 1st, Jeremiah turned 4!

Happy (belated) Birthday Jeremiah!

The birthday boy enjoying his day SO much! He can hardly believe he is now 4. It's so cute when you have to keep reminding children they are a year older, and they puff up with excitement that they, too, are growing up! He's getting taller and smarter all the time!

This is what we had for breakfast! A bagel with strawberry cream cheese and fresh strawberries sliced on top. Yum, it was delicious!
Then we headed to Kangazoom for some bouncy fun! This was our first time to venture away from the other jumpy place named after a primate. ;o) We loved it and would gladly return again if we had another Groupon! This is Thaddaeus enjoying some jumpy time.

Little Miss Priscilla enjoying some time in a bouncy house that's just her size!

The birthday boy showing me his awesome jumping skills! He kept saying, "Watch this, Mommy! Mommy, look what I can do!" He loved this birthday outing more than ever!

All the children after we had jumped and played for a couple hours. They were worn out and hungry! We headed home for lunch and birthday dessert! Below is the picture of what we had! A couple of days earlier I had purchase strawberries for $.49/lb, so we were eating them before I froze some or they went bad. Yep....$.49/lb....I love shopping at ALDI!!!! When they have overstock, they SLASH prices until the product is gone. Once, a friend got me 5 loaves of honey wheat bread for $1 total ($.20 each)!!!

Strawberries, hot fudge sauce, chocolate chip cookie cups (w/scoop of vanilla ice cream)

Such a happy little guy!

We are very thankful for Jeremiah in our lives. He brings us lots of joy and laughter. He is part of our comic relief! Some of the things he says are so funny, and once we laugh, he continually repeats them! He's also at the age where he still pronounces words incorrectly. One of our favorite things he mispronounces is the word chocolate. He says "chu-loc-uh-let". It's so cute! He is a lively little boy and loves to rough house with his bigger brothers. He is also very loving, and gives me about a hundred hugs a day. He told me the other day he loves me "100 million times more than I love him". That's doubtful. ;o)