Happy Birthday Little Boy

It's strange how I can go weeks with nothing to write about and now after one busy weekend I feel like I have a lot to write about. For the sake of time though I'm just going to write about Gabe's birthday on Saturday. We planned before Amelia was born that Eric's Mom would get the privilege of doing his bday because we figured we would be overwhelmed with a new baby. That was when we thought she was going to be born early March but kept it that way even when she came early. So, we got up Sat. morning and just Gabe and I went to church for their Easter Eggstravaganza. He loved the Easter Egg hunt and was very cute. Then we loaded up the whole family and drove to Eatonville. Two of Gabe's cousins came over for egg dying and the small party. Grandma and Grandpa got him the largest rocking horse I've ever seen. Eric says it's like the ones we had when we were kids but on steroids. It's huge! Gabe needs a chair to get up on it and we had to take the legs off to get it into the back of our rig. He loves it though. He gets going on it and starts yelling, "Faster horsey, faster!" This morning he woke up and kept saying to Eric, "Ridin the horsey?Ridin the horsey?"
He is so cute! He loves all tractors and things with wheels. I love how he says most things like they are questions. He also does this funny thing where whenever he gives us something he says thank you. It started because when he helps me unload the dishwasher I say thank you when he hands me a dish. Then he started saying it when he would hand me a dish and now he just says it when he hands us stuff. One day I told him we were going to WalMart and I needed to remember to get juice and milk. So now when I tell him we are going to WalMart he says, "juice?" nods his head and then says, "milk" very matter of factually. I cannot believe how much you can love one person. I wondered if I could love Amelia as much and remarkably, I do. It's unbelievable. Well, speaking of Mia, it's time to get her to bed now. Oh ya, Gabe's nickname for Amelia has rubbed off on me. It's funny how we decided that we would call her A.J. for short before she was born but we never call her that now. Maybe it will start sticking later on but for now I've been calling her Mia. Love ya all, and we'll post some pics of our eventful weekend soon.