When you turn 9 nine years old, and you're a boy, and your name is Derek, breakfast is a VERY BIG DEAL. This mom got up with the sun to make sure that the waffles were mixed, the sausage cooked, the eggs fried, strawberries sliced, and the fresh cream whipped. That all made for an extremely happy guy. Add to that some new athletic apparel to wear to school and it was about as good as it gets.
LAter that day I brought the requested sports cupcakes to school (a re-visit of ones i made in 1st grade). It was his friend, Mei-wa's birthday, too, so she brought the CapriSun and we brought the treats.
THank goodness there are only 24 kids in the class! These suckers take forever to decorate!!
The class sings to Derek and Mei-Wa.
Brooke was along for the ride, of course. She's looking back at some newly hatched ducks in an incubator.
A basketball for Derek.
We spent the whole afternoon and evening in the car heading up to Placerville for a weekend visit to Grandma and Grandpa's house. Lucky Derek got to attend a Giants game with Auntie Erin, and scored this incredible ice cream cake from Grandma!
We just can't believe our little Mr. DooDoos is already 9 ! We can't wait for years more of silly jokes and stand-up, declarations of , "5 more girls like me now", and great sound effects from this kid!
We're so glad you came up to celebrate some of Doo-Doo's birthday! I can't believe he ate that entire breakfast!!!
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