Michael is Seven

Happy Birthday Michael!!!

Our big boy is getting bigger :) He asked for fish tacos and nopales tacos for his birthday dinner. Since I was not feeling very adventurous, we stuck with canned nopalitos. Unlike fresh nopales, they were, well, canned, so Stan fried them up with some chicken. You can see the chicken nopalito taco filling in the lower right hand corner above. It was delicious.

Rachel baked his cake, made the frosting, and then I took over and decorated it, if you can call it that! That is a sugar "M" in the middle. I think I could submit every one of the cakes I have ever "decorated" to Cake Wrecks and get some kind of lifetime achievement award :)

We added seven sparklers, lighted them as fast as we could and quickly realized that his nifty candles cheated him out of the "blow them all out and get a wish". They blew themselves out!
It was still fun :)


So, just a quick update on Michael. His favorite color is shiny red, he has lost two teeth, he bought himself a pocketknife with the birthday money his big sister and grandparents sent him, he is good at figuring out how things work and his favorite parts of school are the art classes and the field trips!