Noah's 8th Birthday

**disclaimer...there are many typos in this note, but I am going on very little sleep, people, so please forgive me, I don't have the brain power to fix them**

Wow, I think this is the longest I have ever gone without blogging. I just don't have any spare time these days....I am living on negative time...needing a few more hours each day. But we are making it just fine, and I get to all the important stuff,and everything else can just wait for another day....or another month, which ever it may be. I hope to catch up on my blog soon...but it may not happen for awhile. We have been doing a lot of fun things that I want to share.

The 27th was my first-born's 8th birthday!! Wow, I guess I say that about everyone getting older...but I wish it would slow down! 8 just seems old to me. We celebrated Noah's b-day a week early, b/c baby was still in the hospital, and we didn't know what things would be like when he got out, and we wanted to make sure Noah had his day. Of course, then everything the whole past week was "I get to do ___ b/c it is my birthday..." so he got more than enough celebrating in.

Here they are at Razorback pizza...our favorite pizza place to eat.

Noah wanted to make his own cake. In fact, he got mad at me when I tried to take over baking it. He knows how to read the instructions, and also understands all the measurements, everything about making a cake, so he didn't want my help at all....he is proud of himself when he can do it on his own. When it was time to ice it, Clay went in to supervise him, but he did it that all on his own, and his cake turned out cute!

Had to use his fingers too, of course

His Star Wars lego people were a surprise to me...I thought they were a cute addition. He even added on later falling down the cake...b/c he had been shot down.

He loved his bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit from McD's for his birthday breakfast.

Noah's poor tired eyes. He had just crawled out of bed. He has decided, this week, he wants to move into the "boy's" room...meaning he has 2 babies for roommates. How that could be more fun than his sisters that sleep all night, I don't understand. He is getting to experience the no sleep week with me. (at least he has a choice in the matter...haha)

His card arrived in the mail from his Grammy. He had gotten a lot of other ones too, I just happened to have my camera out when this one came. Excuse the no shirt...they just got in from swimming Look at Rachel...she was worried that all the candles were going to melt his lego men....and I hadn't even thought about that, but luckily, no one was harmed.

Then, he got a big surprise. He had invited over our neighbor to swim, and as they were out there, some friends pulled up just to drop something off...he had no idea they were coming. They decided to stay, and walked around back, and he just squealed...."what are you doing here?" He was so excited, and saying, now I am having a pool party!!!

So, counting baby T not in the photo, we had 10 kids here, and were also surprised by some pizza...it turned out a fun and great day!

Then, after 9 pm, he decided he was straving, so he fixed himself some Ramen noodles.