Tyler's 1/2 Birthday

Tyler's 1/2 birthday is really this coming Friday, but we decided to celebrate today for a couple reasons. First, Danielle went to a friend's house to play after school, so that gave Tyler & I some time alone. Second, I didn't really want all that cake right before Easter because we're making Easter cookies and are sure to have lots of Easter goodies from the bunny and at my dad's.

We had a really good day! Tyler and I rarely have more than a couple hours a week alone together. (He is on spring break this week.) After we dropped Danielle off at school, we enjoyed breakfast at McDonalds. Then we went to the toy store where he got to pick out a toy (using his saved Christmas money). By the time we got out of the toy store, the rain had stopped and we decided to visit the zoo. We hurried home to pack our lunches and then headed over to the zoo. Since the forecast called for 100% chance of rain all day, there was no one else at the zoo! Other than employees, we only saw maybe 6-8 other people. It was very private and very nice. The old man running the carousel took great joy in giving us an extra long ride probably because we were the only "customers" he'd had all day! Tyler had a lot of freedom to really study everything and even be silly without getting in anyone else's way.



Tonight after dinner we enjoyed Tyler's cake. We still only sang half the birthday song and gave him 6 1/2 candles, but I did make a whole cake. Tyler requested a whole cake, reasoning a half cake just wasn't enough. It's hard to argue with logic like that, especially when the request is for chocolate!