Happy Birthday Daddy!
Happy Birthday Daddy! We love you and wish that you didn't have to work all day in Atlanta on your birthday. The picture below is of the card that Lucas gave Ben for his birthday. Lucas honestly helped me glue every inch of his birthday card. Glue was EVERYWHERE!
While Daddy was at work, Lucas and I headed out to Gymboree. I didn't have my camera so Mrs. Sam took all of the pictures. Thanks for being on top of it today Sam!
For dinner, MiMi and Pops came down and we all went to eat at Sushi Nami in Alpharetta. We tried some new kinds of sushi and had a great dinner. For dessert, we headed back to the house where we enjoyed a yummy Dairy Queen birthday cake. Lucas tried really hard to help Daddy blow out the candle. We also took a few minutes to look at some baby pictures of Daddy, it is amazing to see the resemblance between Ben and Lucas!
Here is Lucas happily eating cake.... and then watching us put the cake back in the freezer!
Since Ben had to work on his birthday, we tried to have a nice family day on Friday when Ben was at home with us for Good Friday. We packed up and headed to Sims Lake Park for a picnic lunch. While we were there we also fed the ducks and played on the playground. Unfortunately, I forgot my camera at home so we will have to go back another day for a photo shoot.
We made Saturday another family fun day when we headed down to Zoo Atlanta. Lucas loved watching all of the animals and recognizing them from his flashcards and books.
While we were there we got to watch the gorillas do an Easter egg hunt! We happened to walk up a few minutes before and got a great spot to see the zookeepers put out the jello eggs. A few minutes later, they released the gorillas and they all ran around grunting and eating the eggs. Lucas was just mesmerized by it all! One gorilla was particularly funny and while waiting, he sat there with his hand up to his ear pretending to be on the phone! Before we left the gorilla exhibit we tried to get a picture of Lucas sitting on the bronze Willie B statue, but you can see by the picture how well that turned out!
I think his favorite part of the entire day was getting to ride around the zoo on the train! Whenever we mention the zoo, he yells "Choo-Choo!" We all had such a great day at the zoo and can't wait to go back! I'm sure Lucas wouldn't mind riding the train again either!
Saturday night felt almost like Christmas around here as we were preparing for the Easter Bunny! Ben and I talked about our family traditions and decided which old and new ones we were going to use with Lucas. The first "new" tradition we did was similar to a Christmas one. We set out milk and carrots for the Easter bunny. I know it sounds weird but setting out milk for Santa really helped Lucas want to drink milk, so we thought it was appropriate to keep it going! We also set out his empty Easter basket and told Lucas that if they Easter Bunny came and drank all of his milk, he would fill the basket full of goodies. Lucas went to sleep pretty excited and probably a little confused too!
When Lucas woke up in the morning, we had the video camera ready to watch his reaction when he saw what that Easter Bunny did! The video is too long to post, but I can send anyone a link to it if they want to see it. When Lucas came out of his room, he looked down and saw bunny "prints" and Easter eggs all over the place!
The prints led from Lucas' room all the way down the hall, over a tractor, down the stairs, and into the living room. Lucas followed them to the table where the Easter bunny filled up his basket and ate the carrots and drank the milk; and then, over to his big surprise...a sand a water table for outside! He was so excited, he didn't know what to play with first. So he settled on eating a full Cadbury egg !
After discovering all of the surprises that the Easter Bunny left, he was ready to grab his basket and collect all of the eggs laying around the house. Of course, he had to open a few along the way to get the jelly beans out of them.
We later got Lucas all dressed up and took a wagon ride up to Olivia's for an egg hunt. Since Olivia and Lucas are my favorite people to photograph, I had to put all of the pictures on a slide show... (don't forget to click on 'View All Images' to see the properly.)
After the egg hunt, we came home for lunch and then changed clothes to go outside and finally play with the sand and water table! At first, Lucas was not fond of the sand, but he got over it and was soon throwing it in the water.
After a nap, we got all dressed up again and waited for MiMi and Pops to come down and ride with us to GiGi's for Easter dinner. When we arrived, everyone was already there, including Aunt Brooke, Uncle Taylor, Grandmama, and Pop-Pop. Before we went inside, Lucas had to stop off at GiGi's car for a short pretend drive!
Lucas was enjoying some outside time and had to stop and smell the flowers!
Family photo session...!
Happy Easter!
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