Asher’s 7th birthday

Our sweet boy is 7 years old today!  He was very excited about his birthday and came in our room bright and early (6am!) begging to open presents.  We had planned to wait until after school to open them, but we agreed to let him open one before school.  We frustrated him by taking way too long to get up and get dressed (no longer than normal, but of course to an anxious 7 year old a whole 10 minutes of waiting seems like an eternity!), and then it was finally time.  He tore through that gift so fast I hardly had time to snap a picture!  It was a new video game from Daddy, and he was super excited about it!  <3  (Totally unrelated side note: our walls look like a nasty pea green in these pictures!  I don’t know why…)

 

After school he got to open the rest of his presents.

 

 

 

Kyrie was so sweet and got the table all set up for the birthday boy’s dinner!  If you look closely at the plate of cookies, you can see she formed the ones at the top into the shape of the letter A. 

For dinner we had all of Asher’s favorites shrimp (scampi), asparagus,and sautéed mushrooms.

 

Then for dessert we had a carrot cake that Bri and I made during the day.

 

He loved his new Transformer toy from Aunt Abby, Uncle James, Logan, Noah, and Ben so much that he took it with him to the table!    Normally we don’t allow toys at the table, but we made an exception this time.

 

And here’s a little comparison – Asher when he was just 2 days old and the big 7 year old (who was too excited about opening gifts this morning to let Mom comb his hair before pictures ).

Happy birthday to Asher!