{"id":2352,"date":"2015-05-08T15:50:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T19:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2016-08-28T22:03:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T02:03:56","slug":"aidan-digs-being-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/2015\/05\/aidan-digs-being-six\/","title":{"rendered":"Aidan digs being six!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"4-26-2015<\/a>Aidan turned six years old this spring and he’s definitely enjoying the spirit of his birthday.\u00a0 He wanted another ‘digger’ theme this year, and since he is such a Lego fanatic, we thought we could merge the two by bringing up all his favorite diggers for some table decoration.\u00a0 David created this ginormous ‘crane’ to hang the balloons above the table, and re-purposed the wooden gate for a construction zone sign.\u00a0 Aidan was all grins to come down in the morning to see his celebration set-up.\u00a0 Alexander had created a running PowerPoint presentation with some favorite pictures of his brother running on the tv, and Aidan just darted about exploring his little construction world.\u00a0 We’d even brought up a bunch of diggers and blocks from the basement for the boys to plow around midst big orange balloons in the living room.\u00a0 Of course, later in the day we had our typical birthday crew on hand for a small family celebration, and Aidan really enjoyed his day in the spotlight.<\/p>\n

\"aidan<\/a>Tuesday- his actual birthday<\/em> he was up early and ready to open Muma and Papa’s present.\u00a0 A big box with several smaller wrapped packages inside.\u00a0 He thought that was just great.\u00a0 He’d opted for a special day with Muma, so while Lukie enjoyed a special Tuesday-Nana’s-House, Aidan and I spent most of the day building Legos and playing together.\u00a0 When we picked up Alex from school, we also swung by for Lucas and then headed to Pump it Up! for an hour of family jumping (with Muma and Papa too!), followed by his favorite supper at home- Muma’s Pepperidge K Loaf, peas and carrots, noodles and salad from Nana.<\/p>\n

\"aidan<\/a><\/p>\n

Aidan always gets so excited for his birthday and this one was just super special.\u00a0 Six is a hard year for me as it seems to be the wrap up of littleness into medium sized-ness, but I know Aidan is ready for this big step.\u00a0 He’s matured so much in the last year and has gained a lot of confidence even since January.\u00a0 But he’s still my reserved little one, and as I recently read a blog\/book page<\/a> from so long ago, it reminds me that his little nature has been his own since he was a wee one.<\/p>\n

But Aidan has a sweet, kind heart for the Lord.\u00a0 He loves to read his Bible in the night if he can’t sleep, and I love our spiritual conversations, and answering (or trying to answer) all the questions he has about it.\u00a0 He pours over maps and charts about Bible and history, and loves to learn about things in ancient times.\u00a0 Lately he’s been asking a lot of questions about heaven and the end times, and he and Lukie will just randomly sigh and say, “I can’t wait for heaven, Muma!”\u00a0 Pray for these boys that their love and curiosity for the Lord and spiritual things will never fade.\u00a0 Pray for Aidan and his strength of character, a brave spirit, a joyful heart, and continual development into a strong, noble, man of God.\u00a0 We love you, dear Aidan.\u00a0 Happy birthday to you!<\/p>\n

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Aidan turned six years old this spring and he’s definitely enjoying the spirit of his birthday.\u00a0 He wanted another ‘digger’ theme this year, and since he is such a Lego fanatic, we thought we could merge the two by bringing up all his favorite diggers for some table decoration.\u00a0 David Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,16],"tags":[376,399,148,350],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2503,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions\/2503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}