Happy Birthday Gabe!

Back in June, our Gabey turned 8!  We had a fairly tame birthday celebration at home.  In the morning, it was time to open presents!  Hmmmm...which should he choose?

He got a bunch of books, which he loves, since he's a bookworm just like Eliana.  One of the books he got was "Awesome Jokes for 8 year olds".  He got it from Eliana; last year she got him the "7 year old" version of the same series.

Gabe continues to be interested in sports and he asks to go play tennis...which is hard because the park close by with tennis courts had been closed due to the virus.  Nevertheless, we got him a new racket and a bunch of tennis balls.

We also got him a new basketball because his old one got a hole in it.

And his card and red envelope from Yeh yeh and Nai nai arrived.

And another gift Gabe wanted was a odometer and speedometer for his bicycle.  He loves knowing how fast he is going and measuring the distance that he has ridden.  You can see the little monitor mounted on to his handle bars.

Instead of having a party with friends, we set up a Super Nintendo for him and let him play that as much as he wanted, all weekend long!  He loves video games and this was a really special thing!  This Super Nintendo was the one that Emily had growing up and it was found and brought over from Emily's parents' house.  After not being turned on for years and years...it was still working perfectly fine!

What the kids played the most was Super Mario Kart.  They raced against each other or played Battle Mode against each other.  It's amazing how grainy the graphics were compared to games today.

As a special treat, Eliana made Gabe cake pops as his "cake".  She got a cake pop maker a while ago for her birthday.  It took a long time!

Here he is blowing out his "cake" after dinner.

And everyone got to enjoy them...

And Gabe also got to drink Guarana, which is a soft drink from Brazil.

And in a trip down memory lane, for some reason we were looking through his baby pictures and we amazed, once again, at how chubby he was!  

And now he is a 8-year old boy!  Happy Birthday Gabe!