Just thinking about how much I like Grady makes me want to laugh. Laugh because I'm happy, not because he's so silly - but really, he is pretty silly most of the time. Making Grady's birthday cake was quite literally one of my most favorite things I've ever done. He decided he wanted a chocolate cake with strawberry, white chocolate filling and he wanted it decorated with snakes and insects and it needed to have a cave and be topped with a volcano. Easy peasy. I went with Ina's chocolate cake and made a white buttercream filling with berries and white chocolate, and it was about the most delectable cake I've ever had. (ps - i try not to eat sugar too much because it makes me grumpy and sick, for real, but I also dream about eating huge fat slices of chocolate cake about once every month or so - so to really have a good excuse to make and eat this most perfect chocolate cake made me like Grady even more.) Anyway... we spent an entire afternoon making little fondant creatures (did you know you can make fondant out of marshmallows and powdered sugar? It was awesome!) and painting them with food coloring. It was so much fun. Then we built this cool salt dough volcano and the kids all painted it and we topped it off with the coolest exploding birthday candles I've ever seen. HOW FUN!!!
For his birthday we were up with my family in Sundance, so that day we just kind of hung out and then B took him and Clara up the ski lift and hiked around for a little bit and then we had dinner (he chose mac and cheese and veggies and fruit) and then we went and had family pictures taken and came back and had his most awesomest ever birthday cake. Then a few nights later we lived it up at Boondocks. Happy Birthday Gray Gray - every time I see your handsome face walk into a room my heart lights up and I feel happier than I was before you were there. You are kind and good and true to yourself. You have a sense of self that I look up too so much - and I hope one day to be as determined and hard working as you are. You are unique and brave and very very funny and I love you with my whole heart.
A few more things about Grady - Me and Grady really like to "exercise" together. We go upstairs, turn up the music really loud and play and play and play until I'm sweaty so I can count it as exercising for the day. We play tag and we wrestle and kick balls at each other and I carry him over my shoulder and dump him on his bed about a hundred times and have so so so much fun. I do squats with him on my shoulders and push ups with him on my back and put him up in the air like he's flying and dance and dance and dance. I think these exercising sessions with grady will probably be one of my very favorite memories of his childhood. One day this week though we were playing this balloon game we made up and it involves kind of a treacherous leap onto the bed from the doorway and one time his whole little body came down right on top of my nose and I thought it was broken....but it wasn't and after he told me to shake it off, we had some more fun. Whenever I complain that I am tired he tells me we better get upstairs and exercise so that I'll have more energy. We also gave him two hermit crabs (both of which he named Josh) for this birthday - and I killed one of them today and that's kind of why i'm finally writing this post. It's really late and I'm kind of tired but I just spent the last 45 minutes reading about hermit crabs and have come to find out that the poor creature wasn't depressed, it was just molting and that's why it's spent the last two weeks in a whole under it's water dish. And it didn't really need to be put in a bowl of water for the afternoon - it just needed to be left alone. I just thought it was probably really thirsty. Ah man.... I really wish tomorrow weren't Sunday so that Josh could be replaced before Grady woke up - but I guess he'll just have to learn the awful truth. And the truth stinks sometimes (just like josh:( ).
anways....happy birthday Grady boy. I love you.
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