J.D.s Haffy Birthday

As you all know, we have decided to celebrate J.D.'s Haffy Birthday (instead of the actual date). So, on June 23rd, we set about to do our annual Smith Family Birthday Traditions.

Birthdays in our house are much like Christmas morning.

The night before... the Birthday Fairy decorates the dining room with streamers, balloons, birthday cups, plates, napkins. And, then the presents are left out for the young one to discover upon coming downstairs.

At 7:00am, J.D. woke up... went straight downstairs and saw his presents.

He came back up to my room and said, 'Open Presents, Mommy!"

Mommy said, "Yes, in a little bit. Go wake up Nana."

So- he did. This time by-passing the presents like a good little boy.

Nana said, "Go wake up your mommy."

So, the poor child tried again.

With no success... he decided to go back downstairs and take matters into his own hands. At 7:12am, I heard the sound of ripping paper.

He had opened the tee-ball set. And, by 7:30am, I had it all put together. (Did I mention that Jason was in Ireland on a mission trip at this time. I learned my lesson about buying toys that need to be assembled when the dad is not home... ahh!).

Anyway, we opened presents, ate cupcakes and eggs for breakfast and then proceeded to play, play, play.

I think it was a tie of who had more fun... Nana or J.D.

J.D. loved his scooter and helmet, wading pool, soccer goal, tee ball, books, new clothes, etc. What a day... what a day!

Below are some pictures (in no particular order... since I am not skilled enough at this blog thing to get them in the order I really want them in...)

This picture was taken after dinner... he played all day!

Another after dinner picture... isn't it great of both Natalie and Nana!

This was the day before at the Colorado Springs Zoo. We took our great friends to the zoo. We saw about a 1/4 of it (that is what you get when you take 4 adults and 5 children under the age of 3)

Cupcakes and Eggs... for breakfast! Yummy!

J.D. and Mommy at the Mexican restaurant for J.D.'s birthday dinner.

More cupcakes and eggs...

In the wading pool... can't post any other pictures of this day long event... for J.D. likes to swim in the nude.

Coloring at the mexican restaurant. We chose mexican because we thought the food would come out fast... boy were we wrong... so we filled our time with coloring.. appetizers... etc.

Precious Natalie at dinner... prior to the arrival of the cheese dip for appetizers.

Halfway through the appetizer course, Natalie took over the cheese dip... should have gotten a final picture (maybe Nana did) of the cheese dripping off her chin, welded between her fingers, smeared all over the table. (We left a good tip...)

This picture needs a time stamp... had this scooter assembled before 9am! Did I mention that I missed Jason this day for a variety of reasons...

Ice cream at the zoo. A passer-by named J.D. the Ice Cream Boy. I think this man took a seat on a bench nearby just to watch how this was going to turn out... messy!

7:30am!

Decorations by the Birthday Fairy.

Awaiting the arrival of cupcakes and eggs!