Happy Brother’s Day

Happy Brother’s Day by madsen4

March 26, 2009, 4:21 am
Filed under: Leah and Eric's family

Today we celebrated our first ever Brother’s Day and had an enjoyable time. Yes, it is a made up holiday and mostly an excuse to spoil our kids, but it wasn’t really my idea. Last June while Montana and I were out shopping for Eric for Father’s Day she said, “So we’re giving presents to Dad for Father’s Day…small pause… And Asher and I gave you presents for Mother’s Day. ..another small pause… When is Sister’s Day?”

Well, Eric and I considered it and thought it would be a fun way to celebrate the importance of being a brother or a sister. Our family is organized such that we can have a Brother’s Day 6 months from Asher’s birthday and a Sister’s Day 6 months from Montana’s birthday (since both kids have birthday’s later in the year we thought it wouldn’t hurt to have a day earlier in the year to provide a reason to give them things they can enjoy in the coming summer months).

Montana was a delight to help with the gift buying, wrapping and giving. Last night she sifted through some card making supplies to make a lovely card with a message of love for him. She wrapped and labeled the gifts and then arranged them for him to find in the morning. She squealed when she told him it was Brother’s Day and helped with the unwrapping (and most times actually waited for him to ask for help before jumping in). He got a new book – Gossie and Gertie (two ducks that could be siblings having fun together), and some new cars and a Little People Garage. He was very, very excited – what’s a boy without a car in each hand?!

Montana helped to continue to make the day special by playing with her brother even more than usual and I heard her tell Eric she couldn’t do her housework today because it was Brother’s Day! I talked her into it by saying that we could go out for a fun adventure tonight if we could think of something that Asher would enjoy doing. We went and tried out Jumping Jacks – an warehouse full of inflatable slides and bounce houses. Whew! What a workout. Asher loved it, along with the rest of us. He was fearless with the slides and wanted to go more quickly than any of him could tow him up. He tried really hard to climb up himself but mostly had to resort to frantically signing, “Up! Up! Up! Up! Up!” Here are some pictures from the day, sadly there were focus issues from slides but I think you can get the drift. Enjoy – and Happy Brother Day to mine and all the brothers out there!