Happy Birthday to Isaak

Dear Isaak,
  It's hard to believe that it's been 7 years, since I've had you! 

 
You're in a phase where you hate getting your photo taken, so I'm lucky to get these photos. 

You've grown so much in the past year. Everyone thinks you're a year older than you are.

Interests:

You love playing board games: Skip Bo, UNO, Monopoly, and a game that's in between Chess and Connect 4 are your favorites.

You love paper. I thought this was going to be an interest you'd give up. Nope! You make books, color pictures, make paper kites, and all kinds of things with paper. 

Your favorite color is gold.

You won't tell me a favorite food that you have. You like a lot of things. You did tell me that you don't like cake because you don't like frosting. You asked for me to make Crêpes with mixed fruits for your birthday party. An odd request, but I can make Crêpes.

You like to play outside.

You like playing with your brother, but you get annoyed because he likes to read on his own.

Gifts:

We got you a deluxe scratch board set, a Lego set, and a book that has your name in it. 

I love you my big brown eyed boy! 

Happy 7th Birthday!

Mom

Mica Turned 7 Today

Dear Mica,

You've learned so much since last year. Here's just some of the things you've picked up on in the last year: Reading, writing, adding, subtracting, telling time, counting change, swimming and more. Much more than when I was your age.  Your Kindergarten teacher felt like you were at the top of your class.

You have a pretty big vocabulary for age 7. Many people think you are older than what you are. It's probably because you talk well and you're tall.

We started adding more chores to your list. At first you liked collecting the trash and taking it out. Now you pretend to not hear us when we ask you to do this job. You also try to skip the process of putting your dishes in the dishwasher. Many times when you are asked to pick up your room, you forget the picking up part and start playing. I'm pretty sure a lot of kids who are 7 are just like you when it comes to chores.

You have a really great imagination. Maybe if we put a story to your chores, they would get done faster. ;) You love to dress yourself and your brother up. Many of the dress up clothes say they go up to age 5, but you still wear them. One day you're a pirate, another day you are a super hero and another day you are a cowboy. Hangers get turned into swards; Daddy and I are often times breaking up fights. No one has gotten hurt yet. In your mind each event should have a theme.

Your crayons have taken a backseat for now. Lego's have taken over in your play. You build all kinds of things, but mostly different types of time machines. Back to the Future has influenced you.

Other movies you like: Karate Kid 1 and 2, The Karate Kid, Kung Fu Panda 1 and 2, Ghost Busters and almost anything that's put on as long as you get to choose. I've heard you tell Isaak that, "Doodle Bops is for babies." You still beg to watch Fisher Price's Little People movies. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I think they are both for ages 5 and younger. I was like that when I was a kid to. I loved that Aunt Terra was younger than me. It was an excuse to play with Barbies a little longer.

I love your sense of humor. Things that you didn't laugh at before you now find very funny. Oh and you are right Isaak's knock knock jokes are not really funny. We just laugh to amuse him.

I love that you are so caring. You walk up to people and give free hugs all the time. Not every kid does that!

Happy 7th Birthday!

Love,

Mommy

Seven on Channel Seven

Cousin Emerson had his 7 week birthday party on Thursday! We couldn't go because Mica had his Meet and Greet night at school. I don't have any recent shots of Emerson. I was hoping to see him tonight at Mica's birthday party.

Mica's party got canceled. Grandma Spiehs got Isaak's tummy flu. I just don't want Emerson, Great Grandpa Kent or anyone else for that matter to get sick! I'd really like to visit Aunt Terra, Uncle Tyson, Cousins Evan, Elijah and Emerson. Just in case I get sick with this tummy bug, I'm staying away. I may see them at the Meet and Greet preschool function that Isaak and Elijah have tomorrow. I'm not sure all of them will show up to that though.

Instead of a party tonight, we're going camping in our backyard. We're trying to make it up to Mica.

Back to Emerson: He's getting bigger. He's 9 pounds 13 ounces. He still has quite a snort, so his doctor is going to examine him pretty well to see if he can tell why. Then he's going to start working on his lucky foot. He has one club foot. Really all they do is massage it and set it in a cast to straighten it out. Then repeat the process. The process causes no pain. The only reason I know about treating club foot is because I watched a YouTube video on it when Isaak had all his bowed feet problems.

Our local news {channel 7} broadcasts birthdays on the 7. If your child's birthday is 7 months or 7 years, it's featured on the channel when you submit a photo. Aunt Terra wrote in to see if Emerson's photo could be on the news? They said that they only show 7 months and 7 years now. After she explained that his life may be short; they agreed to have Emerson on the news Monday morning! If you live in Omaha, Nebraska, Emerson will be on ABC at 5:53 AM! I'm so happy that they are letting this rule be broken. I just think his brothers in particular will love seeing Emerson on TV! If they have the clip on their website, I'll try and embed it.

Hitch your wagon to a star. -Ralph Waldo Emerson