BC, AD, ITM

Bryant and I were talking about the Bible this morning, so the discussion of BC and AD came up again. I asked if he knew what each meant, and he said "Before Christ" and "After Death." I told him to think about that for a minute. If that was true, what would the time while Jesus was alive be called? He thought a minute and said, "ITM." It was my turn to say, huh, what? He said, "In The Middle." I thought it was funny and decided to share.

Just as a reminder, BC is Before Christ, but AD is anno domini, or in the year of our Lord. So, if you didn't know before, now you are ready the next time this comes up in a trivia game.

B's B-day, finally!

OK, just so I have some info about what we actually did for Bryant's 10th birthday, here is a very old update. Bryant wanted to go to Hiro's for his birthday this year. He wanted to do this before, but I would not let him go if he was going to eat chicken nuggets! I guess being 10 makes it easier to try new things. We had a great chef -- I guess that's what you call them? Glenn and Mandy (Pop and Nana) went with us, and I think they enjoyed the new experience as well.

Not the best pic of B, but the best of the 3.

Lots of excitement!

We actually went out to eat on the 18th because he had baseball practice on the 19th. But, that meant on the 19th, Carey and B had the joy of putting together the pull up bar Pop and Nana gave B for his b-day.

He needed a little help getting up to the bar, so Carey got a work out as well!

Success! Now if he can actually get strong enough to do a pull up, it will be really successful. So far, only our tree climbing neighbor has been able to actually do a pull up, and about 10 of B's friends have tried.

Bryant decided to have a few friends spend the night this year for his party. We only had 3 of the spend the night, but 4 other guys came over to eat, play and go to the high school football game with us. Somehow I missed pictures of the running around playing football and basketball in the front yard, but trust me, at least with Bryant's friends, when a group get to our house, some kind of ball game happens. Special thanks to Putt for hanging out with us and helping to manage everyone.

For some reason, I love this picture. It just seems so real to me. A group of 9 and 10 year old boys sitting around playing x-box - even in the middle of the present opening. Birthday parties get so much simpler when kids get older. There was hardly any fighting over whose turn it was to play. They argued a little over whether calls were fair outside, but don't grown men do that about calls made by professionals?

It was REALLY cold at the game! I was very happy I had blankets. The guys sat like this for a while. Most of the guys at the party will not go to the school we were watching, so 2 of them started cheering for the other team. It worked out fine because we were on the visitor's side. Carey likes to sit on that side because it is not as crazy and there is an area behind the stands where the boys can play football. I know, isn't that what they were doing in the front yard before we payed to go to the game? At least they watched part of the game. Part way through the 3rd quarter, I began to suspect that Bryant was sick. He came and sat down beside me with a blanket while his friends hung out below us cheering. Sure enough, when we got home, he had a fever. What do you do when the birthday boy comes down with a fever in the middle of his spend-the-night party? He's already exposed everyone there by that time! So, I did what I could. I gave him advil, made him sleep on the couch as far away from his friends as I could, and I told everyone in the morning. What would you do? No one got sick thankfully! Oh, I forgot to mention that Tuesday before his b-day, he'd complained of a sore throat and had a bit of a fever. I let him stay home and took him to the doctor to make sure it was not strep. I had tried to make sure he was healthy for the party. Anyway, I'm not posting sleep over pictures since I'm just not sure about that one. They boys stayed up until 2:00 ish when I was the party pooper and went to sit with them until they fell asleep. It took about 5 minutes. As soon as they quit talking, they were asleep. They slept until 7:45 when AB was dropped off from her sleepover. Overall, it went well. I leave you with the birthday picture. It turned out pretty good for my camera.