Happy Birthday Nicholas

My little boy turned eight on Saturday. First thing in the morning, he climbed into bed and snuggled with Daddy but Jeffrey and I ganged up on him and held him down for his eight (16) "whoopins." :-) He then informed me that he is halfway to driving. *sigh* He deserved eight more whoopins after that (but he didn't get them)!! :-)
We took the kids to breakfast then over to Grandma and Papa's for a little visit before heading to Nicholas's soccer game. It was picture day which meant that the team needed to be at the field an hour prior to gametime. For us, that meant arriving at the field at 11:15, pictures at 11:30, and game at 12:30. The photographer failed to show up which meant we sat in the sweltering heat of a 98 degree day for over an hour and then poor Nicholas had to run for an hour afterwards. About halfway through the game I saw him running out of gas and started to worry. Lots of liquids and sitting out the third quarter seemed to help but I could tell he wasn't his usual go-get-em self. Even though he didn't feel well, my little guy scored 2 goals!! Come to find out later, a low grade fever can't keep him down.....

This one went in....GGGOOOAAALLLL!!!
Nicholas fell asleep on the way home from the game, sat in the tub for over an hour with the water just running on him trying to cool down (the tub unplugged), slept an hour in his bed after drying off, came out to the living room and fell asleep again in the recliner until Grandma and Papa came over around 5:30. His 100.4 fever seemed to really take it's toll. He didn't eat a lot for dinner but perked up when it was time to eat cake. This year he chose chocolate cake with chocolate iciing with M&M's on top.

Blowing out the candle....

Grandma has this oversized pencil in her classroom that Nicholas has been eyeing up for the last five years. He's always asking if he can do his homework with it :-) Grandma finally parted with it and gave it to him this year but because of his fever, couldn't show his excitement, although he did manage a slight whisper of a "thank you for the pencil" as Grandma and Papa were walking out. He's has done a LOT of writing with it today :-)
He threw the M&M's on the cake just the way he wanted them :-)

Despite the fever, he had a pretty good day.

Happy 8th Birthday my Sweet Boy!!

We love you!!