Happy Birthday, Elijah!

 Anne made Elijah a silly card with the guys nose being a pop-up- it was a hit! :) 

And I just love this smile on his face. :)

 Captain Crunch! My deprived children are thrilled to get cereal for their birthdays...

 Anne also made him a sword! Christian set up a workbench in the shed, so all the kids have really been enjoying using a drill and a saw and now squares, screwdrivers, and hammers!

 Peter made Elijah a wooden robot- pretty cool!

He's not really shirking the fun of blowing out candles- this stance is just one of his current tics.

 We did ice cream cones instead of a birthday cake this year- boy was that great! And we only had one option for ice cream flavor! And I didn't hear a single complaint--even better.

 And Corin's Two! And wondering why on earth would he want to blow the candles out!

In other news, after a really hard week after losing Charlie and this week losing a very good friend of Christian's, we needed some cheering up. So we got this little guy. We don't have a name picked out for him yet, but he's doing really well, even already eating off of our fingers. Just too cute.