Bigger than a dollar

 We can't let a year go by without marveling at the growth in this miraculous little boy...

2 weeks old

1 year old

2 years old

3 years old

4 years old

5 years old

6 years old

7 years old

8 years old

April 13

The Good Doctor said it best this morning on Facebook:

"Eight years ago today, a little baby boy was born to a courageous woman in Utah who made a difficult decision to release her baby for adoption. He was born at 25 weeks gestation (15 weeks early), weighing in at 1 pound, 13 ounces. Little did we know a week later that our lives would be forever changed and blessed. Today we celebrate Victor's eighth birthday, an amazing young man full of energy, full of big feelings, and full of intellect (and a keen sense of smell and hearing). But that is only a smidgen of who Victor really is and who he will become. Victor, I am so proud to be your dad. I am so blessed to have you as my son. And I know that many, many people have been impacted by your young life already."

Happy birthday, Victor!

Birthday donut

Baby Yoda cupcakes last week with the family

April Fool's

I got brave this year and decided to attempt a prank on Victor. This could have gone either way. Since he's an early riser I didn't have to wait long. 

Thankfully, he came into the den where I was working and told me that was "a good one" and he continued to laugh as he talked about being hit in the head by balloons. Whew! Maybe we've turned a corner.

But never get too confident. He can turn on a dime.

The girls were more fun. Since we have a child in the house who still leaves poop around and a dog who doesn't but who could, as soon as I saw the recipe for fake poop, I was in.

I felt like a middle school boy as I carefully molded the batter into poop-shaped piles. 

To cover up the brownie smell, I did actually make a batch of brownies with the left-over batter. No one was the wiser as they enjoyed their brownies last night.

But they woke up this morning to a mess in the bathroom and leading down the steps. Since they aren't such early risers, I had to creatively keep the dog away from the steps without tipping the girls off that something was amiss.

Another great April 1st is in the books.