Justin's 6th Birthday!

Justin turned the big 6. Justin is the middle child of my older brother and sister and is therefore near and dear to my heart. You have to love the middle children of the world. We are so wounded and such good martyrs! =)

Justin is a sweetheart. He also is very very smart and very funny. Often he's sort of lost inside of his own head. He's constantly talking to himself and moving his hands with weird signals. I think he is driving a car or just traveling along a map. Justin loves maps, streets, stoplights, directions, etc. He loves to look at Google Maps and has certain directions memorized. He can tell you street by street how to get from his house to Grandma and Grandpa's house. It's really amazing.

And now he is 6. He loves school. He also loves a little girl in his class. I think her name is Natalie. They are inseparable and whenever he says her name, he turns red and giggles. It's adorable.

As with every Barker birthday we had a party to celebrate. And delicious cake.

Happy birthday my favorite middle child...Just remember your Uncle understands and will always be there for ya!

This picture cracks me up because William has sucked Grandma into reading a soda bottle. He isn't allowed to have soda except on special occasions. And then it has to be caffeine free and preferably sugar free! I'm not sure what they are looking at, but it's just funny. Plus William's outfit is bizarre. One glove, a sweatshirt wrapped around his shoulders, and his ID badge around his neck. Who knows? I let him wear what he wants for the most part.

This birthday party was a little different because my little brother just started his radiation. He is going every day Monday through Friday. He's on anti-nazeau meds, but he still feels sick. He is still working (if it was me I'd be at home in bed). He's lost a little weight already and the weirdest part is that his belly is warm in the spot where they give him the radiation. It's very unnatural and bizarre. At the same time it is really amazing to me that modern medicine can do what it does. Who would think that we could direct radiation and control it so that it can help us instead of killing us.

But the warm spot on his belly weirds me out. Of course lots of things about my little brother are weird, including these pictures from the party. Don't even ask me what he was doing?