Photo Friday

For firework watching I finally made a dessert with the chocolate bowls I scored at World Market.

I filled them all with french vanilla pudding, topping half with raspberries and chocolate shavings and half with s'mores (graham cracker crumbs, marshmallows and chocolate shaving). Brian, Paul and Kate were fans, Ashton not so much.

Props to Brian for figuring out how to eat them without the cup breaking into pieces - the best approach is to just nibble around the edges.

Bonus photo - fireworks were a success, all fingers and toes intact.

Larger Than Life

Since he's said it quite a few times, I simply have to add this note to our blog. Ashton has now announced that his 6'9" Daddy is no longer "all that big anymore". Apparently he feels that as he has grown, Dad has shrunken in stature. I tried to explain to Ashton that Paul is one of the biggest Daddy's he'll ever see, but he calmly agreed to disagree with me, somehow assuming that most Dads come in XXXLT as opposed to the XXLT his Daddy is.

Ashton also adds quite matter of factly that he will surely be bigger than Paul someday, someday soon. That, I silently hope, is a day long off in the distance. I am not ready to stop being able to easily and sofly kiss the top of his head as he hugs my waist, not yet at least.

Here's to dreaming big Ashton! (I wonder if Paul used to say the same things to his Daddy.)