Asa's Birthday

It was a month ago already, but Asa turned 6!  He'd been counting the days until his birthday (quite literally) and even had the gift of multiple birthday celebrations.  It was such a joy for our Bubba to celebrate his birthday with family this year!

First things first: the cake.  He picked out a chocolate cake from the store and requested that I put a dragon on it.  I decided to raise the bar and put two dragons on it.  He was rather pleased!

I just love making my boys happy with their birthday cakes!  They look forward to it every year and I'm glad it's become a tradition.

My parents and my sister's family came over a few days before Asa's birthday to kick off the celebration.  There's nothing like grandparents and cousins to make a birthday all the better!

The weather on his actual birthday was perfect and we took the boat across the lake to get pizza.  That's the other thing about Asa's birthday - he always wants pizza.  He recently declared that his favorite food is Domino's pizza and his second favorite food is non-Domino's pizza!  Well, Lake Inn doesn't serve Domino's but it serves some pretty amazing breadsticks and pizza and our boy was pretty happy.

Also, Asa got this telescope for his birthday.  He's used regularly it for going on adventures, which makes me smile every time.

We continued the celebration at a cabin in Wisconsin with Eli's family, in which all the fall birthdays were celebrated together and lots of presents were opened at once!  Also, more time with grandparents and cousins is a sure win for a birthday!

We are so thankful for this boy.  He is a ball of fun, a total ham, and a true snuggle bug.  Just this morning he crawled into bed to snuggle with me, give me a smooch, and asked if we could tell each other jokes!  Oh how we love this little dude.

Asa is our most expressive kid, our most outgoing, an extrovert to the core, and extremely brave and courageous.  He loves to go on adventures and particularly likes to play games that involve weapons.  He has an imagination bigger than the sky and the sounds that accompany his imaginative games (think blasters blasting) have become the soundtrack of our life.  He loves dinosaurs and dragons, Star Wars and sea monsters.  He loves to play games and loves to tag along with his big brothers any time of day or night.  He hates being left out of anything.  He is strong and independent, yet a total Mama's Boy and I love him fiercely for it.  He still needs his snuggle blanket every day and I love him for that too.  He doesn't sing as much as he used to, but when he does I always stop and listen to his angelic little voice because he's usually singing about God.  Asa loves the Lord and is learning more about Him all the time and wants to know where to find all the stories in the Bible.  His prayers encourage us and we are so incredibly proud of this child of God.  We couldn't be more blessed.

Happy Birthday, Asa!