The Birthday Chronicles

Yesterday I turned another year older and that means another year wiser. Let's be honest, ever since I turned 30 I haven't really cared about my birthday. Back in my younger years I used to make a big deal out of it, so much so that I had a birthday week...every year. Now, I can honestly say it's not that big of a deal. I truly forgot it was my birthday until the Friday before when I received a ton of birthday emails from employees at work (they send out an email announcing everyone's birthday). If it wasn't for that I might have forgotten it was yesterday. I am sure Facebook would have reminded me though when I would start receiving messages that someone from high school that I haven't spoken to in 19 years posted on my timeline. Even though it's not a big deal to me anymore, I had a fantastic day spending it with my family.

We started off the day with Andy's fabulous homemade pancakes...Max's (and mine too) favorite. After Andy made his fabulous homemade pancakes we opened gifts where Max was a big helper and helped me unwrap my gift.

Then Andy took my car to get a bath while Max and I played with puzzles...

...his Tonka truck...

...and night-night. This is his latest game where we pretend to go night-night in mom and dad's bed. Some days (ok, most days) I wish it wasn't pretend and we could just go night-night. But, if you really close your eyes, Max is there to open them with his tiny fingers.

We moved from night-night to trains...

...and then on to building things.

That all took place in the hour Andy was gone washing my car. Now you know why I wish the game night-night wasn't exactly pretend time.

We put Max down for a very early nap because we went to the Brewers vs. Diamondbacks game. This was Max's first baseball game and he has no idea how lucky he really is since his seat was two rows behind home plate. Not too many two year olds get to do that. These sweet tickets belonged to my firm and I was glad to accept them when a partner was not able to attend. We had a great time and Max enjoyed the pretzel, daddy's hot dog, chips and a sucker...he's an eating machine.

We got home and Andy made us a fabulous meal and then we blew out two candles for my birthday. Andy and Max attempted to sing happy birthday to me and it was adorable.

I had the best birthday ever and I feel pretty blessed to have such an amazing family to spend my birthday with.