Happy Birthday!

Did Mark have a happy birthday?  Well, I think so.

First please realize that Mark doesn't understand what his birthday means.  I try very hard to make sure that he knows he is loved every day.  And there's not really a way to do that even more on his birthday.  And I don't consider an excess of gifts to be a way to show love.  Not to mention that an overload of gifts sends him into overload.  But, as always, I did sit him down and explain that on his birthday, all those years ago, I was given a special and beautiful gift.  And that gift was Mark.

And we did go to WalMart and stock up on the Dri-Star shirts that he loves so much.  So now he has plenty to wear throughout the week.  And we went to the pool and exhausted ourselves.  And he got to watch his favorite movies as many times as he wanted.  And he got to eat one of his favorite dinners.  And even better, to him, was that there was no school work on his birthday.

But he is still dealing with a painful outer ear infection.  So he was a little bit slower on the move than normal.  And spent a lot of time just laying around.  But he was happy, giggling, and bouncy - so I'm going with the idea that he had a good day.

And next week he gets to go camping!