The Other Side

​ Today is Joshua’s 9th birthday!  He is the best kid. He is funny, polite, and still has a crush on me! 🥰 We went bowling 🎳 tomorrow we will have our family birthday dinner. He asked me if you could see him and if you knew what his presents were. 😇 I told him you bet! 👍  He was happy about that.  He said: “Of course he can see me.  He can see me all the time, right?” 🥰 We feel you near Babe! 😘  We’ve all had a birthday without you now. 💔 

​Today Jadon turns 5!! Strangely enough, it feels like this is the first celebration. Joshua even noticed that. It feels like the first time we’ve celebrated his birthday.  This is the first one that he seems to be aware that’s it’s his birthday too. When I got him out of bed I told him it was his birthday and he immediately wanted to go to Costco and get his cake. He loves the tuxedo cake from there. He said: “Birthday cake…Costco.” So I got dressed and took him to Costco. 🥰 Every time he says “birthday cake” I put candles on it and sing to him before giving him a slice. He’s had 3 slices so far.  I can tell he knows it’s a special day. He laughs when we sing to him.  He doesn’t play with toys really. He’s still more of a “things” kid. I just grabbed a toy from the Santa pile. I didn’t get him a lot of toys for Christmas (waste of money.) He’ll just focus on a few things anyway so I’m getting development tools as gifts. Today he got the Leap Frog toy and a crawl tunnel....

 Yesterday was a day of celebrations!!  Jennica turned 22 years old!   Remember that one year when we pretended it wasn't her birthday and instead celebrated YOU ?  We celebrated hers a day early so she wouldn't hate you for making her 5th birthday so boring! The theme I picked for her this year wasn't a princess one it was... Hay Day!  (aka that dumb farm game she is obsessed over 😁) She sort of moved back home after the funeral.  (still has her apartment but won't live there till next Fall) She is closer to work here, and she picked up another job...with Abi!! I hardly see her because she work so much, but it's really great when she works the closing shift with Abi so I don't have to go get her! Speaking of Abi... Celebration #2 is: Braces are off!!! I unfortunately, was not in a celebratory mood.  I managed to get the balloons and decorations up but that was the only happy I could provide.  The rest of the day was a struggle.  I was ...