A Decade of Birthdays

Since we're not actually celebrating Noah's birthday today (because I work tonight), I thought I'd give a retrospective of all his past birthdays.  Boy, does it makes me miss that sweet little guy that would cuddle with me.  They grow up too fast!!

This is Noah on his very first birthday back in 2004.  He has a farm birthday with a pig cake.  You'll see Papa Paul in the background.  This was his last trip to see us, because he got sick shortly after this and passed away just a few months later.  He was so proud of having his great-grandson named after him. :-)

This is Noah's 2nd birthday.  He had a Blues Clues birthday.  He absolutely LOVED Blue!

Noah's third birthday, just about 6 weeks after he got a new baby sister. :-)  He had a Buzz Lightyear birthday.  His shirt even matched the theme!

Up until his 4th birthday, he had always had his family come out and celebrate with him.  This was his first "friend" birthday and he had the best time!  Nothing like having a bunch of pirates to hang out with, right?

This is Noah's Superman birthday.  He turned 5 and just had us to celebrate with him.  Still looks like he had fun!

For Noah's 6th birthday, he got his very first bike.  He just got a bigger one last year.  He loved this bike and learned to ride without training wheels with this one.  He had a Mario Bros birthday.  This was his first year without a cake and we've been creating new "cake" idea ever since.  That year he decided on a crescent roll cake.

This was his 7th birthday back in 2010 and he had another friend party.  I try to have a friend party every other year, so it doesn't get too overwhelming for me.  He had it at the roller-skating rink and LOVED it!  You'll notice he has sock monkeys.  He had just fallen in love with them a couple months earlier and has loved them ever since.

This was his 8th birthday, just a few weeks after being diagnosed.  As you can see, he was doing great and super-excited about his sock monkey shoes. :-)  This was another sock monkey birthday.

Last year, in 2011, he still wanted another sock monkey birthday, but I steered him into a science party for his 9th.  Yet, another friend party and it was one of our favorites!  They all did science experiments and then played with swords and light sabers and had the best time.  Can you tell? ;-)

This year he was pretty insistent that he didn't want to celebrate his birthday - yeah, like that was going to happen.  He can around as the date got closer, but that meant he didn't pick out any special b-day theme this year.  So, we just did a primary colored birthday and will be celebrating with him tomorrow night.  But, not before he got this HUGE sock monkey from Nana and Papa T.  I think he likes it!  Happy 10th Birthday, you goofy, silly boy!