Elijah turned 6 years old on September 18th. Yeah, 6…it’s craaaaazzzy. His “birthday week” stretched from Sunday, September 6th until Sunday, September 13th. Here are some highlights…

Mr. Freaky Pants the 1st

stained glass

homemade Lego kits

E's first set of wheels (not counting my old trike); courtesy of my parents.

pirates! (dead ones at that)

extra snuggles with his favorite person

wine cork blow dart guns

people & somewhere there's pet rocks

new Legos

musical entertainment

cake, candles & wishes...there might have been some ice cream too!

I mentioned cake, right?

The following picture pretty much summed up the entire experience for Elijah.

WTF guys?

It was a LONG week. We cleaned. We ate. We shopped. We made stuff. We cried. We screamed. We made new friends. We learned a lot. We saw people. We broke things. We fought over toys. We bitched about random occurrences. We loved. We laughed. We got tons of phone calls. We opened gifts from many miles away. We sang (but not “Happy Birthday”). We will do it all over again next year…all while simultaneously hating & loving it!

Many “happy” returns, Elijah.