Bram's Birthday

Tuesday was Bram's birthday, and since he didn't have much of a celebration last year (poor kid didn't have cake or a single candle), we tried to plan a happy day for him. We woke him up by standing by his bed and singing, "Happy Birthday" to him. His smiling blushing face and outstretched arms was a welcomed response from him. Ten years ago, our singing was met with angry red face and screams of "Bop it!" For breakfast he had a waffle and cider from his special cup. After a tough penultimate day of school on Monday (pool party followed by all afternoon sports party) he really welcomed the last day of school. We spent all of Tuesday morning at school for Field Day, where Bram's class took first place in the competitions. We had lunch at his favorite Chinese restaurant, and then drove (groan) home to order presents from his Granny and to rest up for the afternoon. Bram wanted to see Spider-Man 3, and we made it to the theater just in time to enjoy the movie in a theater all to ourselves. That's right: One theater, one movie, three people. Is Bram lucky or what? We were so busy feeling lucky and enjoying the movie that we missed our reservations for dinner at the Japanese steak house.

As our punishment,we had to wait 10 minutes for a table, and Bram was forced to cook our food. The cook impressed us all with the flaming, smoking onion ring volcano trick.

After dinner, we waddled over to the bookstore where Bram chose two books about military aircraft for himself. Must have been something about our choice of restaurant for dinner... . Then home to watch Pirates of the Caribbean 1 in preparation for his "real party" with his friends on Friday. It's tough to be a kid, I guess, NOT!