September 17, 2007

• ~Nicholas’ 8th Birthday~

  May God Grant Nicholas Many Years!

  September 17th, 2007

  Nicholas had a great day, thankfully! For the weeks leading up to his birthday, Nicholas was so concerned that it wouldn’t be a great birthday because it was his first birthday without his best friend, his grandparents and uncle, not to mention we are living in a very  small apartment without the possibility of having guests. I was acutely aware of the need give Nicholas a wonderful day. His birthday was on Monday. In lieu of the huge parties we usually throw, we spent the party money entirely on showering Nicholas with everything I knew would make him feel happy on his birthday. Monday morning he woke up to a “Harry Potter” cake and lots of great presents. He is really into Ben 10 and was thrilled to receive Ben 10 stuff, a  Razor scooter, Heelys , a “Harry Potter” game boy game, a Webkin and art supplies. Of course being a work and school day, we had to work around Fr.’s schedule and Jonah’s public school schedule. We had birthday cake at 7:30 am!  Maria~Angelica wasn’t yet awake to participate in the festivities, (she was still fast asleep in her closet.) but the boys were THRILLED to have birthday cake for breakfast, which made it possible to celebrate before Jonah left for school. Basil and Nicholas did their morning lessons at home and then spent the afternoon playing with Nicholas’ presents. When Jonah came home from school we squeezed in a meal before Fr. needed to be back at Church for his nightly 7:00 meeting. Nicholas being “Prince for the Day”  had the privilege of choosing a restaurant for his birthday dinner. He wanted to go to Benihanna’s like we have done so many times in Cincinnati to celebrate birthdays with my parents. As far as I know, there isn’t a Benihana’s here, but just down the road from the apartment, there is a Shogun.  The boys always eat well when we go to Benihana’s ; they love the steak, chicken and shrimp kid’s meals. They really love the corn but Shogun doesn’t have corn and Basil were a little disappointed about that. Benihana’s ‘ food is better, but Shogun does put on a good show; Maria~Angelica was terrified of the flames, something Benihanna’s doesn’t have. We all had a good laugh out of the samurai get-up they put on the birthday boy; Nicholas looks so stoic in all of the pictures. During dinner Nicholas turned to me and said, “This was a great birthday.”  Mission accomplished! Now I have to figure out what to do for Basil’s birthday on Monday. I think that is going to be moving day, or at least the first leg of moving day. We have four containers of stuff coming and we have to go back to Cincy to get the rest of our furniture that we left to stage the house. I think I will get some pizzas and a birthday cake for Basil to share with all the neighbor kids. They will be excited to see us finally moving in and the boys will be excited to unpack all their toys and belongings.

   

  

  

   

     

  

  

   

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