My Birthday

On Wednesday I celebrated my 28th birthday. Oh goodness, only 2 years until I'm 30. I'm not looking forward to that.

We'll we decided that we would just stay at home and I would cook the ribs I had thawed out earlier this week since Anders was now leaving early Thursday and not coming back until Tuesday. (Gotta love work travel) I went into the kitchen to start a veggie side and when I got there Ivan come out and says, "Mom, are you making a birthday cake?" I said, "No, I'm making a vegetable to go with dinner." Ivan shoots back, "No you have to have a birthday cake, it's your birthday!" He was so adamit about it, which was funny because he never said anything about it all day. This is also coming from a kid who never eats birthday cake when we have it around.

So I quickly put together a white cake with chocolate icing. Not my favorite but it was quick.

I have to acknowlegde my Mom for always having baking supplies in the house growing up - it has stuck with me :)

I will have to say it was pretty cool to have my 2 and 3 year old singing Happy Birthday to me. I'll always remember that - a first time for the both of them to sing it.

Now days have gone by and Caylin keeps telling me randomly, "Happy Birthday Mommy!" and then breaking out in the song. She is just too cute.

Here is the future baker in the family

There were a couple of things that were happened during dinner that were pretty funny.

I'm sure they won't come across as funny as there were to us but I still think they are with sharing.

1. Ivan and Caylin like to play that they are Mommy and Daddy. They go around all day talking about, role playing the whole nine yards. Well Ivan went to the potty and needed help. He called for Mommy to come help, Caylin went running. Ivan then says, "NO, I want my other Mommy, she has on a red shirt, black pants and a green ponytail. She's sitting at the table. Can you go get her please?" What I thought was funny was that that he describe everything I was wearing, down to the color ponytail holder that was in my hair. This kid is so observant it's scary.

2. We were just having some conservation at the table. I believe we were telling Daddy all about the playdate they had in the morning. Out of nowhere Ivan made a comment and I was like, "Oh Ivan....." He chirps in and says, "I'm funny!" He said it with his head cocked to the side and he raised the pitch on the end of the word funny. Again I think you had to hear it to laugh about it, but Anders and I were laughing so hard.

We have some great kids!!! We are so blessed to be their parents.