Bodie turns 8!

 Bodie felt very special and excited to be able to have his birthday while we were in California. We brought his presents with us and opened those first thing in the morning at the hotel. He got a Nerf Crossbow, scriptures, headphones, a video game, and a few other things. The boys wanted to go swimming first thing before heading into Monterey and hanging out on the wharf. Bodie got a nice juicy crab for lunch. We explored some shore hoping to find crabs and sea life but we also wanted to find a sandy beach to play the day away.

And we sure did find a nice sandy beautiful beach. We spent the afternoon at Carmel Beach. Look at Bodie in the first picture. Being the hulk. Ha! And then being a human barrier for the waves to protect the castle and his favorite are the 3 bottom pictures kinda in a series. He would sit and wait for a big wave, it would hit and splash around him and carry him clear up the beach surfing on his bum. He had lots of sand to wash out at the end of the day. His older brothers were to heavy for doing that.

Best beach birthday ever! We all had such a great time. Bodie and his brothers played hard and loved it all. We grabbed some pizza and cake and had a late dinner back at the hotel.

** Party **

After we got back from Cali, 4 days later we had a b-day party for Bodie with friends. We went up to Olympus Hills bowling. Just like his brothers did. He may or may not have changed his mind a half dozen times on what to do for his party. So I decided for him.

He had a fun time and bowled his heart out. Check out his form?

He had a good group of friends. Girls and boys. I think he said hello to the girls when they arrived and thank you when they left, and that's all that was spoken to them. Silly kid. He wanted blue frosting and thought an 8 sounded great! I forgot a lighter so we had to wait to blow out candles till after we got one when everyone ate the cupcakes already. Oops.

 Happy boy opening presents! And I put a picture of doing a "fake" blowing out candles before the lighter when we sang to him. Jax was my helper because Greg had to work. (although he did show up at the end to say hi) And the lady working the bowling alley was a huge help as well. It got a little hectic with 12 kids to get shoes, and sign up, and get balls for. It all went great! He loved it, I loved how easy it was.

Check out how cute our baby Bodie was! From 2 months to 2 years in these photos.

So-Dang-Adorable! I got all nostalgic looking back at his baby pictures. I just could squeeze him all day. His cheeks, his chub, his little voice. How he didn't crawl but scooted on his bum. So smiley and happy and chill all the time. He was such a delight!

Bodie still is a delight. He can laugh and be silly with the best of them. He does have a shy quiet side as well. And loves to hug and kiss and show lots of love. He can be such a sweet heart. And a mad temper and hits and swings at his brothers! He is our tank. One day he will be able to crush his brothers in brute I think. He loves video games as much as Creed. He likes to play anything with his brother's. It's cute, at recess he's been having Rafe play and follow him around - weather Rafe wants to or not. Ha! He is doing good in school, his teachers say he is quiet in class and needs to really start speaking french, he gets scared and feels he doesn't know it well enough so we remind him none of the kids know it and he has to keep trying. We all take turns helping him with french and he's so good and diligent coming home to do homework and get it done. He takes speech at school and is going to start a reading program. Hopefully he doesn't miss out on too much class time.

He takes forever falling asleep at night and then wants to sleep in come morning time. So I have drag him out of bed. He's getting to be picky about what clothes he wears. He loves to snack on apples, crackers, tortilla chips and chocolate ice cream w/ choc. syrup. Still loves hamburgers and I think pizza. He tells everyone how he loves chicken hearts. He ate them once and apparently loved them to keep talking about it. His favorite lunch at school is chicken nuggets with a roll.

Gosh we sure love our Bodie boy. Our Bobo.
 Although he says he doesn't like being called that anymore. :(