i've got the joy down in my heart: Birthday

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Monday, August 29, 2011

Four Years

Today's Stats at the Doctor's office:

Weight: 38.8 lbs.

Height: 40.5"

He's grown quite a bit since this picture.

Yesterday marked Kendrick's official 4th birthday. He's a "big boy" now doing all the big boy things like pooping on the potty, playing T-ball, and being totally into superheros. He is the joker of the family and makes us all laugh. He seems to be fairly indestructible and is always up for a challenge. He's a bit stubborn and prefers to eat the same food for every meal. For the past 4 years, I have truly enjoyed figuring out his little personality with all his foibles and his quirks. The years have flown by and I look forward to more of what God has in store for him and where it will lead him.

Happy Birthday, Kendrick! We love you!

Friday, August 26, 2011

Birthday Festivus

We have decided to celebrate the entire weekend of Kendrick's birthday, starting Thursday morning. The night before he chose blue blueberry pancakes for his first birthday breakfast. the birthday plate was pulled out and a candle found.

All day long he asked "how much longer till my party?"

At 4:45 we headed to Splitsville for a very small party of three families, the kids he hangs out with most. It was a perfect size group. Who cares if someone bowled at the wrong time on someone elses frame or if a ball accidentally went the wrong way. The kids had a lot of fun and Kendrick loved "helping" his littlest friend, Lauren, pick up her ball and roll it down the lane.

Today's special outing, after checking out all the new birthday toys, is one-on-one Mommy/Daddy time at Top Golf in the morning and Kendrick has his first baseball practice this afternoon with his new team, the Yankees.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Putting It All Together

Can you guess what we will be doing to celebrate Kendrick's birthday?

The birthday weekend kicks off tomorrow!

Happy Birthday, sweet boy!

Monday, January 24, 2011

Well Celebrated

This weekend was all about Cavett. His birth and years passed were celebrated to the greatest height, even if there were some camera snafoos.

We were blessed to have Nana with us the whole weekend! That was a treat in itself. And Stephen's mom was able to join us for the party too! Saturday morning we had the traditional pancake breakfast on the birthday plate, but the new camera card that we had just bought wouldn't hold but one picture. When we took it back to the store to exchange it, we realized we hadn't downloaded the one picture, so thus, no picture.

Afterwards, Nana went with Cavett and me to watch him have his Karate lesson and get his birthday spankings.

The day continued with a birthday party at ASI gymnastics with several of his school friends, a couple of church friends and a couple of family friends.

I think he really had a blast! The favors were many different types of gum. It's been our standing rule that you can't have gum until you are 6 at house. (Just because I don't want to clean it off carpets and hair, and such...)

That evening we went to dinner at Cavett's choice of restaurants which was Chuy's. Jonny and Amber joined us to celebrate Jonny's birthday as well-Jan.26th.

That evening all the Dents enjoyed playing Cavett's game, Bananagrams, from Nana for about 2 hours after he went to bed! It's a kind of Scrabble played without a board making up your own crosswords, but competing against other players in speed.

Sunday was "clean up and put away day" after church and part of his present form Mom and Dad was to be able to organize his Legos. Dad installed shelves in his room and it is actually beginning to feel like a real boys room. I have also promised that we would paint in the next couple of weeks so that we all don't have to look at the "9" that Kendrick wrote on his wall with sharpie last year.

So, I think he enjoyed his weekend and totally didn't want to go to school today. Who could blame him with all the cool stuff he got?

Sunday, January 23, 2011

The Birthday Boy

"Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him." Psalm 127:3

Dear Cavett,

As we sat in the church choir class room tonight waiting for our first children's choir rehearsal together, I was reminded of what you are to me. Up on the wall was the previous Bible verse--Psalm 127:3. It couldn't have been more true. You are my gift from the Lord. You bless me daily and remind me of what is truly important. You make me a better person and encourage me in ways you don't even realize.

The time that we shared tonight playing around with each other was dear and precious to me. It was the best part of our whole celebratory weekend. We don't get enough time like that these days, since you are now in school. Your giggles are contagious. Your dimple-a kiss from God. I get lost in your deep brown eyes. Your desire to see a project through to completion at any cost, I can totally relate to and empathize with you when it can't happen. And, your zeal for life and curiosity is inspiring.

I just can't believe it's been 6 years. They have flown by and I am afraid the next several will only get faster and faster.

I love you, my dear son.

Mom

P.S.- Your Dad loves you too!

Sunday, September 12, 2010

The Birthday Trip

Stephen had been gone for 4 days to Vegas to teach and will be gone again next week to Houston. I missed him much over the weekend and I was so glad to get to spend the weekend with him. We had invited several other couples, but it didn't work out for any of them. While I missed the comradere, it was so good to reconnect with one another and just focus on us.

Much time was spent eating. Sushi at Okada, Brunch at Black Bear Diner off the Strip and Botera Steakhouse for the actual birthday dinner. Now some of you may really cringe at this, but I got my childhood favorite for my appetizer--Bone Marrow and Onion Jam.

I know you are probably totally grossed out. As a kid, my Mom would buy the roast with a bone in it for our Sunday lunch. We would spread the marrow on a piece of bread, salt it and eat it. YUM! I remember "fighting" my grampa for it. Since then, I have never seen bone in roasts at the grocery store and never seen it at a restaurant. Happy birthday to me!!!

Then there was pool lounging, a bit of a shopping spree at H & M, trying on really expensive clothes for my friend Ainslee who interns for a designer, Victor de Souza, and of course people watching. Vegas is THE best place for that.