Well, I definitely won't be getting the mom of the year award. It just dawned on me that I never shared Austin's birthday on the blog. I feel awful. Thankfully though, he's not reading it. But still....
My little man turned six on Feb. 13th, six! It's still hard for me to grasp. He's still so small, but yet so, so big. In the last few months especially, he has grown in not only inches, but also intellect - at a speed that has blown me away. He started reading, and is accelerating at such a fast pace. Within the first week, he went from reading simple to words, to simple sentences. He can finish a book, cover to cover, all on his own. And now, he's reading everything he sees - signs, pictures, mail, trucks, everything.
Back to his birthday though. In an effort to keep everything in our days simple - yes, even special days, we had a simple dinner. We gave him control over the whole event. He wanted it at our house (which is where it would have been anyway, but thankfully it was his idea this time), and he wanted sausage pizza (not made by momma - gotta love him), strawberries, grapes, and a big store bought cake, baked the way he wanted. Simple enough, and that's exactly what we did. It was the most relaxing birthday we've had - and, more importantly, one of his favorites - which made us happy.
It's hard sometimes, to keep things in perspective when it comes to our children's birthdays. It's so easy to go over-board, and try to do everything and anything for our kids, when really, as it turns out for our family anyway, all they want is their own day, in their own way.
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