Michael is Eight!

Last week, Michael had his birthday, and he turned 8!  Wow, time flies!  We got up early to open all of his presents.  He got lots of fun stuff.  In fact, someone asked him the day after his birthday what they could get him for his birthday and he couldn't think of anything. 

 For his birthday, instead of a cake, which none of us like, we made blueberry cobbler for Michael.  We tried putting the candles in the cobbler, but they just melted down to a little puddle, so we put them into the ice cream container and he blew them out from there.

 One of his favorite gifts was a kit to make a solar powered dog.  He enjoyed putting it together with his dad.

A few days after his birthday, he and Ellie had a birthday party.  This was the first year we let them do it somewhere, and they picked Incredible Pizza.  They were each allowed to pick 5 friends to invite.  Even with just 5 friends each, it still was a big party.

Michael is such a great part of our family.  He is the easiest child by far.  He is obedient and fairly self sufficient.  His favorite thing in the world is to play anything Pokemon on his Nintendo DS.  If I would let him, he would play that all day and all night.  He also likes to play the computer.  This year at school he is learning all sorts of things on the computer, including making a website.  It is fun to see him get excited about doing so many things.  He gets computers and electronics well, and sometimes he will have friends call and ask him how to do something with their game or setting up their game. (Yes, we really do have a computer nerd on our hands). He really enjoys reading, and has recently gotten into the Harry Potter series.  He has caught up to Adam, much to Adam's chagrin, and so he now has to wait after every book he reads for Adam to finish reading it so that he can read the next one.  He recently has gone to writing his name on his paper as Mike.  I asked him if he wants to be called that, and he seemed like he wouldn't mind it, but I can never remember to call him that.  He loves to do handstands and walk on his hands.  When he is in the middle of getting ready to go somewhere I have to "remind" him many times to stop doing handstands and get his shoes on, or get his backpack or whatever we need to do.  He can even do pushups while he is doing a handstand, its pretty amazing.  He has just started cub scouts and is very excited about it. 

We really are happy that we have our Michael as part of our family.