The big finale to Huck’s 8th birthday celebration extravaganza was a slumber party with three good friends last Friday night.  We lost Kadin at midnight to the emergency room where he was diagnosed with a 103 degree fever and pneumonia, we lost Luca’s bottom tooth sometime thereafter, and we lost our Internet connection in the middle of a Netflix movie. Valentino excitedly declared the slumber party cursed, though there was a lot of fun going on too, what with the balloons and the Mike ‘n Ikes and the pop song singalongs.  Once everyone left on Saturday Huck sat down with a new notebook and wrote about the blast he had as I began stripping the apartment of all signs of birthday. To show how much sweet stuff we’d eaten over the past week, no one ever noticed that I threw away the last half of his lemon-lemon birthday cake.

I’ve said it 428 times, I’ll say it again … Happy 8th Birthday, Huck!