Happy Birthday Sadie!!

Today our daughter turned 13 years old, though she doesn't seem it because she has autism. Time sure does fly. We went to church and she could hardly contain her excitement when she knew we were almost done and her party would start. When we got home and our guests arrived, we all had pizza, Sadie's choice for a birthday dinner. Then we moved on the the chocolate cake made special for her by her nanny, Amanda. Then she ripped open her gifts, tossing each one aside as quick as she saw what it was to get to the next one. She always says she wants a banana (no, we don't know why, she doesn't eat them) so my mom gave her a banana! She was so excited to get that darn banana! She also got dresses another preferred gift. We got her an MP3 player because she loves music. I have yet to decide if it will be a real hit or not. She says she likes it, but only listened for a minute. Then we all put on our suits and jumped in the pool, Sadie's favorite activity. In fact, she is the reason we have a pool. We swam for several hours, all the kids (and probably us adults) should sleep really good tonight!