Every year I ask if Nick would like to invite a few friends over for his birthday. They could go to the movies, go out to eat, whatever. Every year he turns me down. He has friends, he just prefers to be with family on his birthday. But I always like to give him the option. 🙂
He was gone at school for most of the day, but we made sure to have his favorite chosen meal for dinner and then it was time for presents.
I love how Nick always closes his eyes when opening gifts. He loves the suspense of not knowing and the surprise of finally finding it out, and wants to hang on to that for as long as possible. He doesn’t even really care what the present actually is, he is grateful and appreciative of anything we give him. He just loves to be surprised.
Clearly this book was a good choice.
Sarah picked it out for him and bought it with her allowance money. These two have really bonded over books in the past little while and it makes this Mama’s heart so happy.
Alexandra drew him a picture and he gave her a big hug as a thank you. 
Nicholas doesn’t like a lot of physical contact, although he will tolerate some from certain people. But Alexandra is a whole different matter. He spontaneously loves on her quite a bit, and will tolerate her climbing all over him for extremely long periods of time. Like longer than I would. Such a sweet love these two share.
He decided to be a little silly with the bow. Sadly it didn’t stick enough to stay in his hair.
Noah helped pick this out for Nick while we were at Legoland. It was a hit.
They now have a whole bunch of Lord of the Rings Lego set up in their room. We even had to rearrange a few things to make room for it, and they play with it all the time. Happy 14th Birthday, Nick. We love you!