There is nothing better than waking up to your 2 year old crawling noisily into your bed "whispering" as quietly as a 2 year old can whisper, "happy birthday momma!" This year's birthday was made extra special because Charlotte has finally grasped what a birthday is, and that soon she will be having one of these birthdays so she better pay attention to the going-ons of them! We started the day with breakfast and present opening, Charlotte wasn't impressed with the choice of gifts that I wanted. Especially since I wasn't about to let her play with my brand new laptop from daddy! Thanks honey! The more she opened the more boring it got...a mouse, a computer case...blah....blah....blah...Suddenly though in the midst of breakfast it dawns on her that we are supposed to be singing something. So she states, "I want to sing!" I am then serenaded to a less than perfect version of happy birthday by my Rubert, my hubby and my sister Mary; who shakes her head in dismay as Charlie and Charlotte belt out the words horribly off key but with lots of from-your-toes luster. It was music to my ears. Charlotte then grins ear to ear, extremely proud of herself and bursting with anticipation because she has figured out the secret to birthdays..you sing and then you EAT CAKE! Now, a little background on my daughter's obsession with cake. Whenever I make the mistake of asking my 2 year old what she wants for dinner she most often times answers with a variety of three items. Cake, granola bar(which in her baby language that I can never bring myself to correct, its 'nola bar), or (surprise, surprise) pretzels. As cake is often at the top of her list for eating she was very excited when she was sure this frosting covered treat was going to come next after the singing! Mind you it is 10am but what are birthdays good for anyways right!
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| Charlotte likes to only eat the frosting off the cupcakes and leave the cake! |
Post cake and during the sugar rush we went to the zoo! Charlotte loves the zoo and the older she gets the more excited she is about seeing all the animals! Favorites this time were and always were, the hippos, rhinos, mandril monkeys, and macaws. I am pretty sure she was communicating at one point with the madrils and had a "moment" with the macaws and she leaned up on the fence squawking at them! And because I am the proud owner of the worlds sweetest child, to each and every animal that we saw she told them as we were leaving, "goodbye ___________ , I miss you, see you next time!" Sweet Rubert. This was Bethany's first trip to the zoo! She wasn't as impressed with the animals as big sister was but had a good time taking in some vitamin D and hanging out with her sling with momma.
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| Bethany loved being in the Ergo sling! It was the perfect day for a good sling ride, not too hot and not too cold! |
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| My sweet baby was hungry! She went right to sleep! |
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| Guess she can feed the birds next time we go ;) |
One of the highlights of the Fort Worth zoo is the parakeet bird area where for a $1 you can buy a stick with birdseed on it and feed the birds! Charlotte absolutely loves this part of the zoo trip and after fighting with the lady over getting a stick of birdseed (there card reader was down and I didn't have cash, how is that my fault!!!) Charlotte proudly walked into bird paradise and shoved the stick at the first bird she saw!
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| Of course Charlie always has to push the experience to its highest potential and tells Charlotte every time to pet the birds!!! |
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| So proud of herself!!! |
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| "I want to div dem a tiss!!" |
I couldn't have asked for a better way to spend my birthday, with the people that mean the most to me! Mommy loves all of you so much.
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