Morello Madness: Happy Day!

by Amy

This past Tuesday we celebrated the SIX years of life the Lord has given my two boys! How in the world did they go from this:

to this:

It just doesn't seem possible that so much change can happen in such a short period of time! We praise the Lord for the ways our boys are maturing and growing in godliness. They have brought so much joy and fun into out lives! What sweet gifts from above.....

Enough reminiscing.... Let's get on to the celebrating part! I spent the better part of Monday (and some of Sunday) preparing for the fun! When we were in the States last October, I bought some red and black icing so I could make their cakes. (True red and black are hard to make on your own. My red either turns our pink or else I used so much dye that it tastes horrible.) The cakes didn't turn out perfectly, but my boys didn't seen to notice. They were thrilled! I didn't let them see me working on the cakes, so even though they knew the theme of each cake, they weren't sure how they'd turn out!

After looking at the cakes and enjoying a breakfast of cinnamon rolls, we moved on to opening gifts. Typically, gift opening is an all day event in our home. My kids don't like to rush it. They like to open, then play, open, then play.... So, that's exactly what we did. We opened a few gifts, then played until lunch.

After doing a Webcam call with Brad's mom and letting her see the boys open the gifts she sent, we ate lunch. I let Peter choose our lunch menu. He asked my househelper to make Sweet and Sour chicken. Brad and I had decided we'd let the kids eat a little cake after lunch and a little more after dinner. But, since my kids ate SOOOO MUCH lunch, they didn't want any cake! No problem.... we moved on to the next event of the day.....

Buying bikes!! When we were in the States, both Peter and Alex learned how to ride a bike (w/o training wheels.) So, since then, Savannah has been happy to let them ride her bike. Three kids -- one (pink) bike.... We decided that with summer here, it would be fun to let them all three have their own bikes. So, we took the boys to Wal-mart and found two fun bikes, just their size! Then, we walked over to the local square to ride around. It was super fun! They had a few spills, and Peter even ran into one old man, but all in all, they did pretty well!

After riding bikes and playing with a new SUPER COOL boomerrang, we headed home for showers, a few more presents, a dinner of spaghetti (Alex's choice!) and CAKE! Mmmm!!