Paris turns 10

Admist all the end-of -the year activities and despite his poison ivy, Paris turned 10 on June 18. It was also conviently the release date for Toy Story 3, so that's what we did. We all loved it. I can't believe they keep making them better! I think we all cried at the end, too. Then we went to Chili's for lunch and they couldn't manage to pull together anybody to sing to him or bring him any dessert, so that's the last time I'll go there for a birthday! I was feeling guilty already that his birthday was so anticlimatic. I had orginally mentioned that we'd skip school on Friday to go to the movie, but after he missed so much school for poison ivy and the steroids were finally kicking in, I was worried he'd missed too many days already.

So then we went home and opened presents--a toy story lego set and a bean bag chair. A bean bag chair may not seem like a very good birthday present, but that's what Paris really wanted. He's already picked out a mattress for Christmas.

He's still shirtless because it is the day after he stopped taking steroids and just before we went in to eat, he lifted his shirt to tell me he was still itchy, and I could see red welts starting to rise again from the poison ivy. I was beginning to wonder if it would ever go away, but by Tuesday he had stopped asking for Benedryl and now the you can hardly see the rash at all. Of course, if you come to our house any day of the week, Paris will probably be shirtless. If he could go around in underwear all day, he would.