Noah's 8!

We celebrated Noah's 8th birthday on Friday at Pump It Up. It was Noah's first time at Pump It Up, and he really had a lot of fun. Of course, I forgot to bring a camera, but I did remember to pull my phone out after a while. Unfortunately, that's when Noah was mostly inside the boxing ring where the boys got to whack each other as much as they wanted, so the pictures aren't very good.

Noah's birthday was on Sunday which also happened to be Fast Sunday. He was actually kind of excited to fast for the first time. He wasn't able to open up his presents from his birthday party on Friday or Saturday because of other things we had going on, so he got to open them Sunday morning.

One tradition that we do in our family is that the birthday child gets a bag with some of their favorite food in it. This was something my dad always did for us when we were growing up. There were eight children in my family, so it was really nice to have something that was just ours. There would be some things that we requested, but other things treats that were just added. A few years ago I told my children about it, and they said they wanted to start doing it as well. So the kids usually get to pick a favorite drink, cereal, candy, ice cream, etc.

Noah wanted Fruity Pebbles, marshmallows, gogurts, carmel candies, orange Crush, Cookies n' Cream ice cream, Doritos and something else I can't remember. Usually what happens on a child's birthday is that everyone starts being really nice to the birthday child since they're hoping the birthday child will share, but Noah on his own just started passing out marshmallows to people. He shared the most out of any of the kids, and no one even asked him to.

Noah is a very special boy. He is so sweet (he does have non-sweet moments like every child) and smart. We are so happy to have him in our family.