We'll skip the part about how we spent the better part of 3 hours trying to convince Josie to take a nap on her birthday and skip right to the part where we finally gave up and decided to drive her up and down 71 so she'd pass out and her birthday would be saved. Here are the photos from that evening - our dinner at our favorite restaurant (Riverside Korean) and Josie's first meal there. This is actually pretty hard to believe and was a total accident, but I had to share - check out Josie using the chopsticks!
And - as a big surprise to all of us - our favorite waitress sent out a piece of really yummy green tea cake and a candle for Josie. I had been a little bummed that she wasn't going to blow out candles on her actual birthday since her party wasn't until the weekend, so this was such a wonderful surprise. And we all enjoyed the cake!
Here are a couple of photos from the aquarium. We didn't take very many since we hang out there so often, but we did actually fork over the ten bucks for the print of the family photo in the jaws of the giant shark to commemorate Josie's birthday. This was a funny moment I had to share. Josie is obsessed with knowing the names of anything and everything - all the characters in her books, every picture on billboards and in magazines, animals at the zoo, trees, cars - you name it. Literally. Chances are, if I've ever met you, I've used your name at some point in the last couple of weeks for a rhino, pig, puppy, jellyfish, etc. It's a bit exhausting actually. And I've had to get creative (characters in movies, TV shows, etc) so imagine our surprise when all the sudden Josie decided to name the penguins herself. She was pointing to them going "that one's Dodo, that one's Haha, that one's DiDi". It was too cute. Here they are all lined up (Lou told her they were singing happy birthday)...
Nothing like a good cuddle in front of the penguin display...
Here's another one of our little cuddle machine earlier in the day...
Lots more birthday photos to come...
And - as a big surprise to all of us - our favorite waitress sent out a piece of really yummy green tea cake and a candle for Josie. I had been a little bummed that she wasn't going to blow out candles on her actual birthday since her party wasn't until the weekend, so this was such a wonderful surprise. And we all enjoyed the cake!
Here are a couple of photos from the aquarium. We didn't take very many since we hang out there so often, but we did actually fork over the ten bucks for the print of the family photo in the jaws of the giant shark to commemorate Josie's birthday. This was a funny moment I had to share. Josie is obsessed with knowing the names of anything and everything - all the characters in her books, every picture on billboards and in magazines, animals at the zoo, trees, cars - you name it. Literally. Chances are, if I've ever met you, I've used your name at some point in the last couple of weeks for a rhino, pig, puppy, jellyfish, etc. It's a bit exhausting actually. And I've had to get creative (characters in movies, TV shows, etc) so imagine our surprise when all the sudden Josie decided to name the penguins herself. She was pointing to them going "that one's Dodo, that one's Haha, that one's DiDi". It was too cute. Here they are all lined up (Lou told her they were singing happy birthday)...
Nothing like a good cuddle in front of the penguin display...
Here's another one of our little cuddle machine earlier in the day...
Lots more birthday photos to come...
1 comment:
how sweet, love the cuddle photos. I like her names of the penguins. She looks like a pro with the chopsticks. Laurie
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