9-Year-Olds

How is it possible that I have 9-year-old boys? I remember the first two years of their life and thinking, "this is going by very slowly." Then somewhere it sped up and never stopped. They are truly two of the most amazing kids. They've overcome so much and continue to keep impressing me everyday with their good choices, sense of humor, and intelligence. Their birthday stretched out for days, as they all seem to do, and was filled with Cub Scouts and celebrations. On Saturday, after wrapping up four days of Cub Scout Day Camp early because of SNOW (yes, you read that right, snow in Vegas in April!) they went to the movies with a couple friends. Then we took them to Grimaldi's for pizza and Nielsen's for custard (Bud had a little influence in that decision, but we all enjoyed it). Sunday (their actual birthday) they had breakfast in bed, presents, and a family dinner. Monday I brought in 4 dozen donuts (2 for each classroom - I really miss the days they were in the same class) and then after school they got to go on their "Nana date" for frozen yogurt and shopping. They still have one more "Grandma date" to go on with my mom, but that will have to wait a week or so until she comes back from Hawaii. Then last night, they wrapped it all up with the Pinewood Derby. Bud, his dad, and the boys, worked really hard on their cars. I even helped a little bit too with the paint jobs. Last year was a little dissapointing seeing as we only had a couple days to build the cars and didn't really know what we were doing. But this year we took a little more time and it paid off with silver and bronze medals. The boys had a great time (including Bud), and it was fun to watch them all get so into it. Now the next birthday we have to look forward to is this new baby!