Happy Birthday to Chauntert & Medina

Berkley has been asking to make a strawberry cake for days and when I told him today that we were going to make one he was so excited. And as my children typically do, this cake became something about their imaginary friends. First, Berkley exclaimed with joy that today was Chauntert's birthday and he wanted to know if we could sing and have candles. I thought "why not" and said sure. Boy did that make my little man happy! Meredith chimed in and added that today was also her friend Medina's birthday, so we ended up having a double party. Fun times tonight in the Manning home. Sadly, Chauntert couldn't make it to the party b/c he got sick so Berkley got lucky and got to eat Chauntert's cake for him.

I also wanted to add how my Little Miss is growing up. Meredith can now zip up her own coat, swing herself without any help from mommy, and she recognizes most capital letters of the alphabet. I didn't realize how well she knew her letters until today. I had gotten them juice packs, Meredith had a Thomas the Train juice box. She started talking to me and said "that's the name of my juice" and I was like "what?" She again said, "that's the name of my juice" and proceeded to spell T-H-O-M-A-S. I couldn't believe it. My girl is so smart and I am so proud! But she doesn't like for me to get all giddy about how proud I am of her, I have to stay calm or she gets upset, yet another crazy thing I love about her.

One last story about Berkley. When picking him up from school today his teacher noted that Berkley hadn't listened well today during group time, that he'd wanted to do his own thing. Then the teacher announced that all the kids who had behaved well could get their coats to go outside, to which Berkley approached her, held her face in his hands, looked her in the eye and said "I be good tomorrow." My sweet boy, he's hilarious, I love him!