Josiah's 9th Birthday

Today is Josiah's 9th Birthday! Many of you will recall the day he was born.

The picture on the left is him in his first few moments of life. He was born 10 weeks premature and was 2 lbs 6 oz at his tiniest. He stayed in the NICU for 32 days.

I can't even begin to tell you the joy of finally getting to bring him home. Here he is at about 2 months old... home, tiny, but happy and doing well

Oh how the years have flown wonderfully by!

What a delight Josiah is to our Family. It it

hard to believe that he is 9 already. There is

not a day that goes by that we are not thankful

for his presence in our lives

Last night, we celebrated with a small party. Our friends, The Salfrank Family, graciously invited us to celebrate at their home. We invited 2 other families and had a great time.

Daddy grilled burgers and dogs and we had cake and ice cream for dessert. Josiah was delighted to have all his new friends there to play.

There were 16 kids ranging from 1 year old to 16. They all got a long great and the evening was full of card tricks, swinging, skating, toys... lots of messes and.....
A great game of Wiffle Ball. The Salfranks have a playing field right in their yard. It was miserably hot and the Daddies were melting but the kids were hitting and running like the pros. We then had a Pinata that refused to be broken. The string, on the other hand, broke several times and eventually the whole activity required some serious adult intervention to get at the desired result... CANDY!!
Presents were opened, much to Josiah's delight. He got up this morning planning out how he would schedule in all his new stuff to do. But, First things First.... He and Dad went Fishing! But that is another post......