Nathan's Birthday

Nathan was born on October 12th but we celebrated with him up at our house on Sunday the 16th.  It was nice and pretty simple.  We invited a few of his friends (CP and Matt Wiz) to come and have dinner and cake with us.  I do love entertaining, any excuse to have people over (I think I get that from my parents, they modeled that pretty well growing up, still do to this day).  Nathan did not know we invited some extra people, Allison did a good job of not telling him, so I think he was pretty happy with the two friend that showed to celebrate with us.

Before we had dinner Allison and I went to a consignment event called Just Between Friends, it is basically where anyone who wants to get ride of anything kid related (toys, clothes, etc) can consign it in this event and they open it up to the public.  Well the last day is always the 50% off day, which is when I go.  I was in the market for some jeans for Hannah since she can't wear 2T anymore because of her height.  I love this event (they have one every season in multiple locations) and you would not believe the amount of items they have, even at the end.  Most items are given to donations like Catholic Charities or ARC if they do not sell, and believe me there are a lot of items left.  Allison and I did pretty well I think considering  who overwhelming it can be going thru hundreds if not thousands of items looking for the best ones.  The reason I bring it up is because I found these pink shoes that are like ruby red slippers only bright pink for Hannah and she LOVES them, I think mostly because she can put them on herself (she is really trying to be independent when it comes to getting dressed, she can do most things outside of shirts and tops).  Hannah has been running around in these shoes for the last two days and she keeps saying "oh look at my pretty shoes, they are so pretty, I just LOVE them."  It is pretty run to watch her be such a girl (one after my own heart with a love of shoes and all) :)

We ended the night with one of Nate's favorite cakes (german chocolate) and Hannah could not have been happier, we try and do dessert (especially chocolate) as early as possible because if you have ever seen a child on a chocolate high like this one you would too.  It is almost like her body can't stop from moving and her brain is trying to process the movement but can't quite keep up and then she crashes, I mean really crashes; not pretty, not pretty at all.  Now Uncle Nate is the apple of Hannah's eyes, she loves to call him, go to his house, have him come up here, pray for him, and tell just about anyone she meets about Uncle Nate, so when she got to blow out the candles on his cake with him she was in heaven.  I love how she loves him, if we could all love as a child loves, so unconditionally, so freely and so intensely, could you imagine how life would be for us.

Thank you little ones for showing me how I should love,

Love Mom