Jaron turns 9!

Jaron turned 9 this year!  Jaron is really living his best life right now.  He gets his morning chores, piano, reading, etc. done and then is off to find friends to play with.  We often don't see him for the rest of the day until I track him down and tell him to come home and eat dinner.  He has lots of friends in the neighborhood.  He still spends most of the time with his friend Graham.  He's also spent a lot of time with Parker, Aiden and Lincoln.

His true love though is still soccer.  He gets sad if his practices get cancelled, always looking for someone to play with him.  His favorite thing to do with me is play penalty kicks.  This is where we take a rubber ball (like the cheap ones from walmart) and I throw it at him as hard as I can and he tries to block it.  If it's not that we're bouncing it back and forth to each other seeing how many times we can go back and forth without it dropping, or just playing catch.  He loves those balls and is constantly kicking it around.

For his birthday we hung out in the morning playing with his new soccer goal and his friend Graham came over for a while.  That afternoon we went bowling and to Pizza Pie Cafe for dinner.  We were going to go kayaking with the new kayaks we had gotten but a storm blew in and so we just came home and watched a movie and went kayaking the next day.

On Sunday we celebrated all the July birthdays at Grandma and Grandpa's house as is tradition.

The following Monday we had his birthday party.  This year we decided to just take a few friends and go to Splash Summit for the afternoon.  He took, Graham, Lincoln and Aiden and it was such a fun afternoon. Then we stopped by In-N-Out for dinner.  Low key compared to other years but it was fun and the boys all had a great time.

Jaron is such a sweetheart most of the time.  He loves to snuggle with me, will do things I ask him to do and is very obedient.  He does have a hard time being the youngest and the only boy so he does get frustrated pretty easily when things don't go his way but overall he is a happy, good kid who tries his best in everything he does.

We love you Jaron!