A Day Of Celebration - Andy's 13th Birthday

For their birthday's, my kids get to choose what they would like to do for the day, and also what they would like to eat. Andy chose to have pancakes for breakfast (although mine are never quite as good as the Mickey Mouse pancakes (Great) Grammie and  (Great)Grandpa in NY make), mac & cheese for lunch, and the Olive Garden for dinner. Andy asked both sets of his grandparents to come to dinner with us as well as his Aunt Emily & her family, and all obliged. We ended the night with home made Oreo cookie ice cream cake.

Because Andy's birthday fell on a Sunday this year, and because he had a soccer game on his birthday we decided to allow him to begin celebrating his day Saturday night. He had a friend over for the night, and they rented video games and were allowed to play for as long as he wanted to. He was very appreciative of this as video game use is very restricted in our home, and Andy would play video games 24/7 if he could. He ended up staying up until 5:30 am, and woke himself up at 9:30 am!!! Needles to say he told us yesterday that he won't be pulling an all nighter any time soon, and certainly never the night before his birthday. He ended up taking a small nap during the day, but not enough to keep him from being extremely exhausted all day.

Overall, he told me last night as I put him to bed, that he had a good day.

Sarah decorating the refrigerator in honor of Andy's birthday

At the end of the day - totally beat, but happy.