Given that today was Fast Sunday, Elliott chose to celebrate his birthday yesterday. We started off with cleaning the church building (I know, it doesn't sound that fun, but it was our week and we let Elliott pick whatever job he wanted and I think he did end up having a lot of fun). For breakfast Elliott picked to have lemon poppy seed muffins which were super good. Then he opened up his presents. Some of the highlights were a bag that Julia had made for him (she has really become a pro with her sewing machine) and a ball from Christian. Usually we don't make our children give each other presents, but rather kind of just consider the presents to be from everyone. Christian though had been talking to Rebecca all week saying that he wanted to spend some of his own money on a gift for Elliott. We had already purchased the ball and Christian really liked the idea of just paying for that. It was neat to see how thoughtful and concerned he was.
After that it was pretty much lunch time. Elliott picked macaroni and cheese from a box. And then just everyone playing with Elliott's new toys. That lasted all afternoon! For dinner we had pizza and Rebecca and Julia had made a really yummy chocolate cake. Elliott had no problem blowing out the five candles, perhaps because he could get that extra air through the big gap in his front teeth.
The evening ended with his choice for a movie - Kung Fu Panda.
We are so glad that Elliott is a part of our family. His personality is very unique compared to our other children and he just loves being close to us and trying to make us feel happy. He is a pretty big guy though, so sometimes his physical attention ends up hurting some, but we still appreciate the love.
Here are some pictures of him with his siblings.
2 comments:
Happy birthday Elliot! wow, 5 seams young to have lost both his front teeth to me! I'll try to remember to call soon!
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