Asher we celebrated your birthday over two days! On Friday (your actual birthday) Daddy took the day off work, and Nana & Papa were here so we all went to the zoo!! Nana and Papa got you the zoo membership for your birthday and we’re looking forward to a whole year’s worth of visits. :)
The morning started with birthday pancakes and opening a few presents. When I explained to you (the night before) that we would wait to open gifts until your party you asked if you could open one gift on your actual birthday. When I told you, ‘yes’ you asked if it could be a toy. ;) Smart kid! If you only got 1 gift you wanted to make sure it wasn’t anything boring like clothes!!
I love that you brought your binoculars with you to see all the animals up close!
First it was the marine animals. Checking out the sharks with Daddy and Papa…
And then the seals…
and next the penguins of course!
The weather on your birthday was picture-perfect! The morning was cool, but not cold; and the afternoon got warm, but not hot. God gave us such a gorgeous day to celebrate YOU!
Off to the woodland animals… the bear was snoozing in the shade.
Jesse loved his first zoo visit!
Mommy and Nana passed on seeing the bats, but you thought they were cool! (I think you look SO old in this picture, even older than 3!)
And then we saw the TIGERS!!! You’ve been SO excited to see them. The zoo has a tiger webcam so we watch them at home on the computer quite often, but this was our first time to see them in real life!! They were sleepy, but thankfully we got a good view of them.
Of course binoculars help!!
Your birthday and Mother’s Day fell two days apart…. reminded me of the Mother’s Day I ‘missed’ by about 12 hours since you were born around lunchtime the next day. :)
On to the African animals!
Giraffes , lions, rhinos, monkeys, elephants and cheetahs!
So fun to have Nana and Papa with us! It was their first time to our zoo and they loved it too!
“Where are you cheetahs!?”
Found ‘em! Relaxing in the shade!
Mommy and Daddy with the birthday boy!
An attempt at a family pictures… Smiling was not big on your list at this point in the day.
Though you did save a few good smiles for your picture with Nana and Papa and Jesse!
On our way home, sleepy boy went from this to…
this in a matter of a few minutes! :) I’d say he enjoyed his first of many zoo trips!
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You were quite sure you didn’t want to nap when we got home, but were asleep within about 30 seconds of your head hitting the pillow. You almost slept until dinner!! You were re-charged and ready to go for pizza and cupcakes.
GOOFY boy you had your eye on those cupcakes.
A few more pictures, please!
Sweet Jesse didn’t even know what he was missing by not getting a cupcake… don’t worry buddy you’re only a few months away from tasting sugar!
Daddy picked up the cupcakes at a bakery in Carmel and they were delicious!!
You wanted to look at them about 6 times before dinner and after much deliberation chose the one with all that chocolate icing!
Looking at those candles…
Yippee!
Delicious!
Asher, I’m sure we would have had a fun day even if it had been cold or rainy; but I sure do love looking back at these pictures and remembering the warm sunshine and cool breeze for your special day. It was the best day and seemed so appropriate for such a sweet THREE year old boy!!
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