Happy Birthday Christopher

Christopher has left early childhood and has succumbed to the middle years. As of September 8 at 5:00 in the evening, Christopher is a 7 year old. Early childhood is generally considered 3-5 or 4-6, but 7 is firmly in the grade school years. And as you can see from his power ranger boxers, army cutoffs and roller shoes (AKA Healies) he is now a grade school boy. Gone are the days when I have influence over his outfits. Ben on the other hand, as you can see, is the little preppy child that mama is still dressing.
Christopher's Birthday began in the wee hours of the morning when his little body woke him up with a rush of birthday adrenaline. He had a banner present opening, yielding stilts, (from Gigi and Papa) a pogo stick (from Oma and Opa) and Healies (from mom and dad) From morning on, his feet never touched the ground. At 5:00 p.m. we picked up three of his friends and headed to the electric rodent (Chuck E. Cheese) and then off we went to the Wheaton Men's soccer game where the above picture was taken. As you can see, Christopher and his friends are showing early signs of gang involvement.