James' birthday was just a few days after Easter this year so we celebrated on Easter Sunday. It was nothing fancy or huge but a good relaxing day. We started of course by going to church. The boys behaved themselves really well-especially considering we weren't even inside the church! Since we moved we started going to a new church and it's packed every Sunday! So Easter Sunday they had it all set up for people to sit in the fellowship hall and watch church through Skype! My parents and all my younger siblings came to our place to celebrate James' birthday. My brother Nathan and his family were planning to come but poor Lucas got sick a couple days before :( bummer. Guess we'll just have to arrange a play-date/weekend soon! We had lots of Mickey Mouse items for James! He still loves Mickey. The last couple of years we've gotten James an ice cream cake for his birthday-thinking that ice cream is something that he can eat-he wants nothing to do with ice cream. So this year we tried your traditional cupcakes. He was pretty interested in the Mickey on a stick-but that's as far as that went.
Every year around this time I think back to the week that James was born and what whirlwind it was. It's amazing to think that this little boy is here with us. I never once thought that he was going to die. Never. But now that I think back, there were so many times that he fought to pull through. Statistics don't usually work in James' favor (I'll save that for another day). That being said, if he followed the mortality statistic like he follows the rest, he shouldn't be here. But he is. And I thank God for it every day! This little boy is so happy and smart. I get pretty excited to pick him up from school every day now because he is showing them how smart he is and finding ways to tell us! Hoppy 5th Birthday James!
