Our "Little Man's" Big Birthday Weekend~

I totally forgot to publish this post from almost a month ago--better late than never!
This year, L's 8th birthday happened to fall on the weekend of our state Homeschool Convention...my hubby and I are both 'on staff' to assist, so L joined us this year in order that we could spend part of his birthday together. The 2 older boys also came to serve much of the weekend and the 3 younger kiddos went to Mimi and Pop-Pop's for Friday and most of Saturday. There was a children's program again this year and our friends from Historical Happenings conducted a few sessions on Civil War and Medieval Times, which Luke attended along with a bazillion other kiddos.

Before we left for the convention we were able to squeeze in L's celebration dinner. L chose meatloaf and mashed potatoes for his meal of choice... he made this decision with a little help from his siblings. Initially he wanted whole wheat chocolate chip pancakes but since we had them for breakfast over the weekend they were able to convince him otherwise!

P was a good sport and shared his birthday cake with L since their birthdays are only 5 days apart. We were crunched for time so they celebrated together:)

We pre-ordered this WW2 gun with Mimi and Pop-Pop's birthday money for L. He could not wait for the Historical Happenings booth to get set up so that he could go and claim his gift!

L spent his birthday money from Grandmom and Pop-Pop B at a vendor who sold art supplies. He frequented the booth so much that the owner kindly gave L a sketch pad to go along with some of his newly purchased art goodies.Here L is settled at the Volunteer Booth working on a scratch art project he also bought with birthday money...it was a picture of WW2 fighter planes.

At the end of the convention, the children participating in the Civil War program were led through the convention hall 'in formation'

L is in the back row with the green shirt...he was quite the serious soldier!

Another view of the 'soldiers' in formation~

It was a crazy busy weekend followed by a wedding the next day after church so we were grateful L was with us on his special day! He thought it was pretty cool to spend Friday night in the hotel and to go for a swim at 10pm when we finally got in from the convention hall!