How to Turn Eight

Here's how you turn eight in our house.  First, schedule your birthday on a holiday, so there is no school.  Next, wake up and play a game of Battleship with your brother. 

Then devour some giant, heart-shaped cinnamon rolls. 

After breakfast, send your little sister away for a couple of hours with dad. 

Later, rejoin Dad and Anna to see the matinee showing of Star Wars: Episode I in 3D.

Return to share a family dinner featuring baked salmon, quinoa salad, caesar salad, hot bread and virgin frozen strawberry mojitos with both sets of Grandparents.  Blow out the candles on your {wilted} Thing One and Thing Two cupcakes (hmmm, the flaming blue cotton candy hair melted into the frosting).

Open your presents, including things like grippy nerf footballs, joke books, Diary of a Wimpy Kid books, a new game called "Tilt," and money.  Finally, just before bed, check out the shark and beach cupcakes you get to take to school the next day.