The birthday boy spent his morning taking Grandma to the airport, eating cocoa puffs for breakfast and watching a favorite movie- Wreck-it Ralph. We then drove to Bowman for a rib festival that Daddy and the twins were already at helping a friend who had entered the rib contest. There was a big bouncy house and slide plus a bouncy water slide. I had never seen one of those. We bought everybody their first snowcones. (What kind of parents are we? I was surprised when the boys informed me that they have never had a snowcone before. For shame.) The rib dinner was delicious and our friend won first place! David John and the other boys didn't hesitate to bask in the reflected glory.
He opened his presents in Bowman and he had chosen some special brownies that he wanted instead of cake. He was one easy-going birthday boy.
Unfortunately, I have been a complete slacker in taking pictures of my boys especially when I am trying to wrangle them in a public area so I don't have pictures from the big day but I do have a cute one from the Safety Fair in the Spring and he's wearing a crown so it totally counts as a birthday picture.
More importantly, I have saved some of my favorite things that David John has said. A thousand words is worth a picture, right?
David John: "I just flabbergasted."
Me: "What do you think flabbergasted means?"
David John: "It means fart."
In the Spring, when the school was celebrating Dr. Seuss's birthday, David John went through a Dr. Seuss phase in which he spoke and wrote in rhyme. All the time. He told me he wanted to be just like Dr. Seuss when he grew up.
Me: "Oh, so you want to be an author of children's books?"
David John: "No, I want everyone to always celebrate my birthday!"
David John often struggles with apologies. We've explained to him that sometimes, even if you aren't feeling it, it is socially necessary to offer an apology. He had hit Benjamin and we told him that he needed to apologize. He responded by turning to Benjamin and saying, "Sorry!" in a whiny, annoying, rude voice. We asked him to try again and do it in a sincere way. So he said, "Fine. Dear Benjamin, I am sorry that I hit you. Sincerely, David John." Yep, that was sincere all right.
In celebration of Tobias being successful with potty training we took all the boys to Pizza Ranch for dinner. One thing they love about Pizza Ranch is the self-serve soda. They like to mix up unusual concoctions and then compare their masterpieces. Gabe and David John decided that they wanted every kind of drink they were allowed to have mixed together. They knew that coke was off limits and Barq's rootbeer because they contained caffeine but they weren't sure about hic. "Can we have hiccup juice Mom?" "Umm, what? What's hiccup juice?" "Hic! It's a drink! You know h-i-c." "Oh! Hi-C! Yes, you can have that." I think hic is a better name. It's phonetic.
As a seven-year-old boy, David John has a penchant for potty talk. At church, his teacher will let them play a game of hangman at the end of Sunday School but David John often uses that opportunity to write an inappropriate word like "poop". His teacher related to us that when David John raised his hand to write the word for hangman most recently, he made David John promise that it would be something church appropriate. He wrote out blanks for a phrase with four words in it and the class was really struggling to figure out what it was. The teacher was also having a hard time. In the end, Daivd John had misspelled one word which didn't help but when the teacher saw the phrase he laughed so hard. David John had spelled out "THIS IS CHURCH APROPRIATE". Good one, David John.
This kid is so cute and so fun. We are indeed so lucky to have him. We can't wait to see what this year brings.
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