Happy Birthday, Kenneth - 10 years old!

Well, yesterday was Kenneth's 10th birthday. It's hard to believe we've been parents for a decade.

Sunday just about killed him dead...it was SOOOOOO hard to wait ONE MORE DAY. Then, once yesterday came, he was so happy! We made him wait until everyone was awake to open his presents (that just about killed him, too). Our schedule has been very "off" due to the weather. It's just too hot to sleep at a reasonable hour, so we've been staying up late and getting up late. Steve was up especially late on Sunday night getting a project done. Anyway, by about 8am Caitlin woke up and she was the last one. Steve gave Kenneth his Optical Calcite (a rock), and the display stand we bought him while we were in Hawaii. Then he asked him if his birthday was good, and if he was happy. While you could see the look of disappoitment in Kenneth's eyes (he REALLY wanted a Nintendo DS), he was very grateful and sweet about it. Steve then asked him to get something from up stairs for him, and lo and behold there was another present on the stairs. You should have seen his sweet face when he opened it and saw his new, black, Nintendo DS. It was reminiscent of Elise's 1st kiss, actually. I wish I'd have had the video camera on. He was SOOOOOOO overjoyed. He received 2 games from his friends, and he got some $ from another friend which he used to purchase another game, and we gave him 1 game, so he now has 4 games. He's pretty set up, I think. We spent the day shopping (Aunt Julie's gift card was burning a hole in his pocket - it turned into some Star Wars action figures), and we went to Panda Express for lunch (one of Kenneth's FAVORITE places to eat). Kenneth had requested Beef Strogenoff, Green Bean Casserole, and Strawberry Dacquaris for dinner. It was a yummy dinner and we topped it off with a family movie of his choice (he chose "Ant Bully"). I think he was pretty happy with how the day turned out, and now my son is 10. How does that happen?