Brandon's First Day Being 6!

I'm sitting here remembering almost every detail six years ago when Brandon came into our lives. He was early and big and had to be delivered by emergency C-section. He would only stop crying in those first few minutes if he could wrap his fingers around his Daddy's. If Mike took his finger out of Brandon's little palm, he would start crying again. He melted my heart then

and melts it every day since.

He still loves to be close to us. Everyday, he asks me at least once if we can snuggle on the couch.

He was the first one up this morning. Unusual for him to beat Sydney awake. He was excited. All he wanted was an Angry Birds stuffed animal. Ok, easy enough! Mike and Sydney found him 4 when they had a Daddy/Syd date a couple of weeks ago. He loves them!

He didn't have to go to school this week because of Kindergarten testing....so no school on his birthday! Sadly, I have a killer cold and didn't sleep all night. So, I went back to bed when the girls left for school. He is such a cute boy and let me sleep an hour. Then, we got ready and headed to Walmart for ice cream and so he could spend the $ Grandma & Papa Gib gave him. He ended up buying a Lego set that took he and Mike 2 hours to put together tonight.

Good Father/Son bonding time.

We then met Mike for lunch at In-and-Out. B and I then went home, talked, snuggled on the couch and waited for the girls to come home.

(I forgot a '6' candle at the store again. Amanda decided to step up our math. Just add the numbers together)

Tonight we had eggs and sausage and quickly started our Backers cake celebration as Amanda was waiting to go to the Stake Center to play dodgeball. We made her feel guilty enough about leaving the family on Brandon's birthday that she stayed long enough for cake. :)

During our lovely singing of Happy Birthday Brandon tried to plug his ears.....

Mike, Sydney and Brandon played with his angry birds. Mike would throw them at the kids and they would dodge them. This could have gone on for hours. When Mike called the game on account of bedtime, there was major protesting.

I wanted a picture of Mike, me and Brandon on his birthday, but he was being silly and didn't give us that cute grin. I guess we just take what we can get.

Love you Brandon!!!