HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

(yes, this video is ridiculously long. It was hard to whittle it any shorter though; so many pictures are favorites!)

Dear Isaac,

Happy birthday! This year your birthday falls on the Friday before President's Day, as it did the year you were born. You have your dad's brown eyes and your mom's stubborn grit. You have a sweet personality, a loving disposition and a wicked sense of humor.

Here are some things you love as you are turning six:

• Sweets of all kinds. Also, apples and applesauce.
• Reading and writing. You are always making lists, and writing things down. You can read so many words. I often find you reading books to Grandma.
• America's Funniest Home Videos or "Funny Bideos" as you call it.
• Scrabble Junior and checkers. I stopped letting you win a long time ago.
• Sports. You love to play football, baseball, basketball and soccer. I often find you playing soccer and football with the big boys when I pick you up from the Y program after school.

You are such a joy to me and I love you more and more each passing day.

Love, Mom