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Bella’s birthday is June 1 but due to a bunch of family weddings that took us out of town around that time we celebrated it with friends on June 12th this year.

On the first we had a little private thing with a special dinner and some presents from the family that we opened. Bella picked salmon as what she wanted for dinner so Momma made a nice bed of rice with spinach and Daddy grilled the fish – it was yummy. And then we had a birthday cupcake with a candle to blow out.

On the twelfth, we held a party at Bounce-U. This place was really cool – they have two large rooms with a bunch of inflatables in them to bounce on and a place to have a party. There are other places similar where your kids run around and bounce but what makes Bounce-U different is that the only people in there bouncing with you are the ones you invited to your party; so it’s like you rented the place for yourself. You spend 40 minutes in one room, 40 minutes in the second room, and then 40 minutes in the party room where you eat pizza/cake/whatever. It was a little pricey but the tradeoff was not having to worry about making the house spotless or wondering if anybody was going to break something or get hurt (we had 24 kids plus accompanying adults) – we showed up, had fun, and left – it was awesome! Oh yeah, Bella really had a lot of fun too

We have an antique music stand with some old hardcover book on it that we basically use as a decoration.  One evening out of the blue Bella walks up to it, starts flipping the pages, gesturing in the air, says a mish-mash of phrases from her bedtime stories – is generally pretending she is reading from this book to some unseen audience.

So I ask her, “what are you doing, baby”?

“I’m the Preacher.”

It’s nice to know she is paying attention in church, even if it usually doesn’t seem like it.