Damon is 8 years old!!
Damon loves people and people love Damon! He has a smile that draws people to him. He enjoys talking with people and making them laugh.
I'm told regularly how much people love Damon. Mrs Cooper reaches out often to tell me how much she loves him, other teachers at the school, family, my young women, etc. He's so much fun and brings a lot of joy to others.
Damon loves to play with friends. He's a great helper at school and is doing really well with everything he's learning in 2nd grade. He's excited to be learning multiplication now! His favorite foods are peanut butter, any kind of treat, and salmon. He loves to play video games with Rockwell and Paul. He wants to play every sport, and he loves to be outside.
Damon wanted to have his friend party at Lowe's Xtreme Sports again. Tessa's Regional gymnastics meet was on the same day as Damon's birthday, which stressed me out. We told him that Paul would take him and his friends to his party that afternoon, but he said that he really wanted to go to Tessa's meet and wanted to do his party a different day. So we did his party on Thursday. Rome, Jacob, and Quinn came and they had so much fun!
Friday morning Paul made bacon and animal-shaped pancakes with strawberries and whipped cream for Damon's breakfast.
We let him open one present that morning. He was excited to get some rollerblades.
He was really excited for the Spirit Week Glow Party that afternoon at school. I needed to check Tessa out early to get her hair done for her meet, but wanted to make sure Damon could stay for the party. I switched carpool with Aubrey, so that I could be working on Tessa's hair then instead of picking the kids up from school. Sadly, she forgot though, and so by the time the kids called me from school and I went and picked them up, we needed to get right into the car to make it up to Layton in time. Damon wanted McDonald's for dinner so we got that and ate it on the way. We brought all of his presents in the car and he opened them while we drove. He loves his new stuffed dog Spirit, and is excited to try his new gel blaster guns.
On Saturday, Grandma and Gramps took Damon out for his birthday. He chose Dairy Queen for lunch.
He came home with so many toys from their shopping trip! He got two remote control cars, two balls, a stick dinosaur, a huge water gun, and treats. He and Grandma add up the prices of the things he wants as they're shopping until they get to the birthday budget amount. He was able to get a lot of things he was really excited about!
There were a couple hard things on his birthday this year, but he said it was a great one!! Damon's pretty easy to please, which is a wonderful thing about him. I'm so grateful for all the people who love Damon who helped him have a great birthday.
We love love love you Damon Doyle, and are so so so grateful you're in our family!!
Damon is pure joy. I love how happy and exited he always is. You can't help but smile when you are around him.
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