My Birthday

I am blogging about my birthday a little late. The last few days have just been really busy so this is my first opportunity to sit down and right.

My birthday was an excellent day. I woke up to breakfast in bed (courtesy of Howard) and a "Happy Day, Mommy!" (courtesy of Chase). What a great start! I received a gift card to shop at Kohl's (yay!) and the three newest Diner Dash games which I love. I don't care how dorky that makes me! We went for lunch at Olive Garden (so yum!) and took Chase to Toys R' Us to spend some of his birthday money. Taking a child into a toy store and watching their awe and amazement with every toy is so much fun! Howard bought chicken cheesesteaks for dinner so I didn't have to do any cooking at all. Yay!

He also bought me a Cookie Dough Delirium cake from Cold Stone Creamery. (See pic above) He and Chase sang to me. Chase is so cute because he understands the whole birthday thing a little better because his birthday was eight days prior. He was so excited to sing and he clapped for me after they finished. My friend Andrea actually made 48 miniature Fun Fetti cupcakes and mailed them to me along with icing so that I could have a little something sweet without skyrocketing my blood sugar. I don't get to see her very often so it was such an awesome surprise. Fun Fetti has been my favorite cake since I was a little kid (I LOVE it) so it was so great that she remembered and did that for me. It was the icing to a perfect day. (I'm allowed to be corny once in a while!)

The amazing thing is how well Chase got the hang of birthdays. I was sitting on the couch nursing Alexa the next night and I heard him over at his toy box singing "Happy Day, Happy Daa-aayy" but didn't know what he was doing. He finally got up with the block structure you see in the picture singing "Happy Day" to me! He put the blocks down on the couch and told me to blow out the "candle". I complied and then we both pulled off block pieces of cake and "ate" them. He was so excited to give me the cake. It was so cute! Of course I was completely thrilled that he was doing something special for his mommy.