Today isn’t all sad

Speaking of raising children to adulthood…

Encyclopedia Blue is many things:

Exuberant

Contemplative

Adventurous

He is eating a smoked scorpion. A friend from China sent us a jar full of them, but EB was the only one in the family who dared to try one.

Water lover

Brave

He was the only one of us who would ride the Hades roller coaster at Wisconsin Dells in 2006. I took this picture between his first and second rides.

Reader

Tenacious

For a boy who has had to share his birthday with a national tragedy for the past 9 years, I think he has turned out pretty well.

Happy 18th birthday, Encyclopedia Blue!