Remembering Joshua’s Birthday

We spent most of Joshua’s birthday evening at our church. One lady who lost her baby 10 years ago to sids said they let go balloons each year on her son’s birthday. They let go one balloon for each year that has passed. We thought that sounded like a good idea that the other children would enjoy. We bought the balloons and a birthday cake. We had the cake at our Wednesday night church dinner but it was too late to let go of the balloons that night so we thought we would wait until the next day.

Gasp…the balloons had lost there helium!

So our new tradition….We had the children say something they liked and remembered about Joshua and then they got to pop a balloon. Then the next one got to do the same until all the balloons were gone. They had a blast and got to think of good memories about our Joshua who would have been 11