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January 4, 2004

I can now officially say everyone is properly birthdayed

We have a birthday the first part of each month of the holiday season. Jake's is technically the first birthday in our family (today) but unfortunately, the last to come. This has caused untold amounts of "not fair" grief especially this year. Much to Jake's relief, his birthday FINALLY came! Happy seventh birthday little buddy!

I have continued my mom's tradition of allowing the birthday celebrant to pick out the cake and icing. Normally this works out just fine. Not this time. We had to endure white cake with vanilla frosting that had rainbow candies in it. Yuck. Unknown to me though, this is a huge hit with the seven year old set and all the kids LOVED it. I started a tradition of our own where the party guests are asked to NOT bring presents and instead, we do a cool craft project. On Eli's birthday this year, we made Flubber (it is like silly putty). For Jake, I got white ceramic mugs and found markers specifically for porcelain. When the marker dries, it resembles a glaze and is permanent. I had the kids brainstorm and draw a picture on paper first and then transfer the design onto the mugs themselves. We had a blast. I am going to take all my coffee cups away and replace them with these (we did one for each of us and I will have my guys each do one more so we have a set of six). They turned out really neat.

I will forgo the comment about how unbelievable it is that I have children that are nine, seven and two! (oops that was a comment).

Posted by DebC at January 4, 2004 6:56 PM

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Posted by: Dad at January 8, 2004 5:10 PM