Happy Birthday, Justin!

Today Justin is 8 years old! He got to choose what he wanted for breakfast—waffles.
He opened one of his gifts, a game for his DS, World of Zoo, and started playing. Soon he came over to tell me about their misleading advertising, which was: feed goodies to gators, make playgrounds for penguins, play with pandas, make mayhem with monkeys, and create your own zoo. We sat together and started figuring it out. In a few minutes he was smiling and playing. A few minutes later he said, “This is the best game ever.”

Grant gave him a silver chain he’d won in a crane game.

Jim and Sandie gave him a talking Star Wars card and a Wimpy Kid book.

He got cards and telephone calls full of birthday wishes.

We went to Go Paint and made ceramics. Justin smiled some more.

Then we went to Taco Bell for lunch and cinnamon twists. Yep, more smiling.

Tonight Justin chose Chili’s for dinner. He had a corny dog and mandarin oranges. When they brought out the chocolate molten cake a group of wait staff sang to him and gave him a coupon to come back for a free meal. He smiled ear to ear.

When Tad kissed the boys goodnight Justin said, “I had a good birthday.”