Birthday

We plan to celebrate my birthday and my sister's (hers is on the 17th) together when we visit California in a week so I hadn't anything planned for today.  And I actually completely forgot it was my birthday until I checked my email this morning and saw happy birthday wishes from my bank.  Gotta love impersonal automated birthday wishes and it is very sad that I needed it to jog my memory.  Of course even if my bank hadn't reminded me, a quick check of Facebook made it clear that today is my day.  And to help my husband out, I texted him that it was my birthday.  To which he responded, after wishing me a happy birthday, asking what I got for myself from him.  It's my parents' marriage all over again (and that isn't a bad thing because they were very happy).

So besides a lovely poop filled diaper Miss T presented to me, the only birthday present so far is an apple pie the girls and I picked up at Fresh Market.  I got the no sugar added pie because who in this day and age needs all the extra sugar in our diets.  The girls certainly don't need to start on that this early in life.  It tasted plenty sweet though and really hit the spot.  The only thing I can think of that would have been better is blueberry pie from fresh picked blueberries.  It is not yet blueberry season though and it looks like with our month long trip to California, we may miss blueberry picking this year.  So sad. 

The girls are currently "napping" while I get some time to myself.  By napping I mean T is fast asleep while D talks to herself.  She used to be the type that no matter how riled up be before bed, if you put her in the crib within a couple minutes she would pass out.  Now she babbles and sometimes cries 15-30 minutes each time after I put them down before falling asleep. Two reasons I can think that might affect her sleep are that she is no longer sucking her thumb (she sucked it too much two weeks ago and left her thumb swollen, callused and with the outer layer of skin missing) and she has started getting more into potty training.  Both of them have both been waking up an hour early for over a week now.  I miss sleeping in the extra hour. 

 

Yesterday we went to a playground at Burns Park for the first time.  We met up with two boys the girls have been pals with all their short lives.  There is a great area there designed for the 2-5 age group.  They had a lot of fun riding the horse merry-go-round, sliding down the slides and hanging on the bars. 

 

This afternoon we are going to make footprint butterflies on canvas with acrylic paint.  I plan to lay cardboard down on the floor for protection but I really hope they don't make a mess.  They will be Mother's Day presents for Oma and Leila.  I'll keep one for myself too but am not sure if I'll count it as a birthday present or Mother's Day present.