Happy Birthday Kaleb!

Kaleb on his 5th Birthday wearing his new Transformers hat

Kaleb Daniel Coronel is the big '5' years old as of March 8th. His only request was to go to McDonald's for his birthday lunch and for Mommy to make him a white cake with strawberries and lots of frosting. That was a do able request. Karis asked him who he wanted to invite to his party, now this is where it became complicated, because he started to name off all of his loved ones in California. We think Kaleb will be the first one to move back to Cali if we are still here by his 18th birthday. He loves 'California' a.k.a Nanna and Pappas house ;0)

So on Sunday we tortured him by not allowing him to open any gifts till after church and after lunch and after singing Happy Birthday. Meine Gute! Poor boy! He did o.k., only asked from the moment he woke up till we lit the candles on the cake "Can I open my presents now? But he also gave me a great sermon illustration. Like the disciples asking ""Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?"

Kaleb is an amazing little guy. He loves to do all the crazy and fun things boys do and at the same time he is so soft at heart. Everyday at least 2-3 times in the day he will call out "Mommy, I love you" or "Daddy, I love you" Melt our hearts!

One thing that has really blessed us this last month is to see his all of a sudden desire to pray. He just started asking "Can I pray"? And of course we allowed him to our delight. His prayers are something like "Dear God, thank you for this day, thank you for all the stuff we have and want, thank you for our bodies and our hands so we can grab things. Help us to get back safely from wherever we are going...In Jesus name I "pway" Amen.

As some of you know Kaleb is a huge Transformers fan. He has some transformers toys and cartoons. He was blessed by aunties and uncles and Nanna and Pappa and Oma and Opa, along with Mommy and Daddy with some new Transformer Autobots and Decepticons. He love to go around singing the Theme song to Transformers. I wanted to balance this out a bit so one day I started singing 'Our God is an Awesome God' every time I heard Kaleb sing the Transformers song. Karis, Kaleb and Zeeky caught on to it and we hear them singing it now in their playtime. Kaleb, in learning the song, sang out "Our God is a HANDSOME God..."!