{"id":783361,"date":"2010-12-21T19:36:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T03:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/leigharev2\/?p=783361"},"modified":"2010-12-21T19:36:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T03:36:07","slug":"happy-8th-birthday-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2010\/12\/21\/happy-8th-birthday-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 8th Birthday, ‘A’!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

“OH how the years go by…”<\/em><\/p>\n

Just as I feel like I am getting the hang of being the mom to young ones, my young ones grow and aren’t so young!\u00a0 AAAAHHHH!\u00a0 They are going to be pre-teens before I know it, then teens, then <gasp>, adults!\u00a0 I am hyperventilating here!\u00a0 This is happening too fast!\u00a0 My little babe was just a babe, seems like yesterday!!<\/p>\n

OK, I have caught my breath, even though it’s only caught in my throat…<\/p>\n

Since our precious first born could not wait for his first Christmas and popped out a month early, we have decided to hold off on having a party for him until after the holidays.\u00a0\u00a0 I joke with hubby that we should have just told\u00a0 him he was born in February.\u00a0 He’d never know!<\/p>\n

He started his special day by waking up shortly after 6am.\u00a0 For a child that rarely arises before 8:30am, this was definitely an oddity.\u00a0 He came into our room and said, “is it too early to start my birthday?”<\/p>\n

I told ‘A’ he could have anything he wanted for breakfast.\u00a0 He chose eggs, bacon, cinnamon rolls, apple juice, and I\u00a0 surprised him with egg nog.
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After breakfast, but before school, (yes, I was a mean mom and had school), we went to pick out cupcakes for dessert later at a terrific cupcake boutique in Rocklin…
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Christie stopped by with her two girls and gave ‘A’ some yummy treats.\u00a0 So sweet!\u00a0 The girls made homemade cards.\u00a0 They are precious.<\/p>\n

Dinner time and ‘A’ got to choose where to go.\u00a0 He picked Mikunis<\/a> for sushi!<\/p>\n

Our sushi chef, making a custom roll for ‘A’ (eel, cucumber, avocado, fish roe…)
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‘A’s custom roll…
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Next up…Tako!\u00a0 (Octopus)
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The chef made ‘A’ a special extra plate for him.\u00a0 Rice balls in fish roe…
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Yum!\u00a0 The Rainbow Roll!
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After dinner, ‘A’ got to spin the birthday wheel and won Mochi Ice Cream!
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Mochi ice cream.\u00a0 yummy!
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‘A’ and the talented sushi chef!
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Daddy surprised us all with a trip to see “Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader” in 3D!
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After the movie, it was time for cupcakes and presents!
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Happy birthday, ‘A’!\u00a0 We love you!
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“OH how the years go by…” Just as I feel like I am getting the hang of being the mom to young ones, my young ones grow and aren’t so young!\u00a0 AAAAHHHH!\u00a0 They are going to be pre-teens before I know it, then teens, then <gasp>, adults!\u00a0 I am hyperventilating here!\u00a0 This is happening too […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-fun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}