Race Around....it's another birthday!

My oldest child turned 7 this weekend.
I've been a mom for seven years!? I find this incredibly hard to believe.

He started out as such a little peanut, didn't he? (this was a FILM picture -- back then I sent all my film to Snapfish to develop so they have digital images of all of them. whew! who knew I'd need them for future blogging?!)

And now he's seven.
He can read.
He can write.
He can play chess and do karate and play piano.
He rocks a mean Guitar Hero.
It boggles my mind when he carries on a real conversation or says, "actually, Mom...."

We had a driving party. It's a long and complicated story, but basically we bought a few remote control cars and ran our own RC car party, using the synagogue's social hall for a big open space. We thought the kids would race but they had more fun just driving the cars around, so that's what we did!

It was really hard to photograph! Hard to get the kids and the cars in the same pictures, hard to keep them in focus. But they were having so much fun it didn't matter. (Also hard to get shots of just my kiddo so I could post them here on my blog, of course.)

 

 

Then we had chocolate cupcakes. Not as cute as last week's, but very tasty. I am really in love with Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, and I love their frosting recipes. This one was the Chocolate Buttercream (but vegan...I'm not one, but I play one in the kitchen sometimes).

 

  

  

(As you can see, very well enjoyed!)

That last one is definitely my best shot, although I'm pretty sure my dad took it and not me. Oh well.

Go see what other people photographed this week. Happy birthday, David!

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