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We celebrated Asher turning 7 years!  Seven years.  1-2-3-4-5-6-7.  That’s a lot of years old.  He’s so big.  I was looking through old pictures, and came across this one of Asher (who was about Beck’s age now) and Daddy flying kites in the park.  This day feels like yesterday.

The years are short.  Happy Birthday, Asher!  We love you so much!!

We celebrated the big boy with cupcakes, kickball, and friends at the park for a Pokemon party!  Asher has really been into Pokemon this past year.  There is lots of nerdy Pokemon talk going around the house, and it’s really cute.  It’s fun listening to him get so excited about the game.  He literally studies the characters and their attributes.  And, his love only grew after he received a whole new stockpile of Pokemon loot at his party :).

Our talented friend drew Asher and Pikachu :).

Asher’s real birthday day was a couple of days after his party, so the celebration continued – family style :).  Bowling, arcade games, and bumper cars.  We had an awesome night together, and we know that Asher felt loved and special.

We totally scored with getting a youngster who was manning the bumper cars, because she held pretty loosely to standard protocols.  She was ok with Punkie getting his own car, and all of us being able to be together for an extra birthday treat for Asher.  It was so fun!

Beck and I brought cookies into Asher’s class to sing Happy Birthday with his school friends.  Asher was on cloud nine showing his brother off to everyone.  He was laughing telling everyone stories about his brother, telling Beck to say, “chicken butt” (Beck’s favorite thing to say whether he’s happy or upset), showing him around the room…they both loved every minute of it.

Asher also was “Star Student” at school the week of his birthday.  He got to share lots of pictures, favorite toys, a special letter from Daddy and Mommy, he received a card from everyone in his class, and several other star student luxuries.  I wish I would have taken a closer picture of his poster and answers here, because they were so hilarious!  His favorite “Catch phrase” is “Is it recess yet?”  LOL!  That is so him :).

Special sleepover and baking cookies with Grandma and Grandpa Olimb!

Pumpkin Patch fun with friends!

Halloween!  Asher and Beck dressed up as Atreyu and Falkor from the NeverEnding Story!  They were so cute together!  We looked all over for a white puppy dog costume for Beck and sadly couldn’t find one…but thankfully Daddy is a master at photoshop :).  Jeremy and I are nerds about the movie, and decided it was high time to introduce Asher to it.  When we asked Asher if he thought it would be cool to be Atreyu for Halloween, he was super pumped about it and watched the movie several times beforehand to make sure he learned his character, ha!  I love that the character he dressed up as is a warrior boy…because Asher is just that.

Halloween was a blast this year!  Grandma Olimb got to walk around with us, and Beck was so into collecting candy and saying Trick or Treat to everyone it was cracking us up!

Speaking of cracking us up.  Here he is, really thinking he’s funny with a sock on his head :).

Asher had a bit of a rough month with his belly.  He had several xrays, and had to stay home a couple of times from school to do complete clean-outs – only liquids and high doses of miralax and ducolax.  The evenings were the hardest for him…and being around a little 2 year old who is constantly snacking.  We’ve had to change up Asher’s daily medicines a bit, and we’re hoping long term this will help to keep him clear and we can avoid major belly aches like he was experiencing.  Here he is, on Halloween before school, at his doctor’s office.  Like I said, he really is a warrior boy.