Since T's birthday was on a Monday we had our good friends over the Sunday before for dinner, playing for the kids, and Pinochle for the adults. We celebrated with a Dairy Queen ice cream which the kids were super excited about...and the adults too for that matter. Haha.
The day of his actual birthday Boo had a basketball game that was closer to Grandpa and Grandma's house than ours. Unfortunately Grandpa was sick but Grandma got to come Uncle W, Auntie N, and cousins W and M. The littles literally ran in circles jumping on and off this mat the entire game! In between quick climbs on the wall.
It was a hard fought game, but they lost. We found a pizza place nearby and had fun dinner together.
Then it was home for a late present opening. Daddy got a Mariners jersey from Peanut.
A little power pack for jump starting his pickup which dies a lot, from Boo, a "cooling memory foam pillows" from Lou, and Hey Dudes from Peaches and Bug.
My gift was a bit more complicated...years ago when he was at his first job and I was nannying. We had a very strict budget and when they started coming out with the big Lego buildings we really couldn't afford it. He really wanted the first one, called The Green Grocer, but we just couldn't spend that much money on toys.
A few years later he became a CFO and was able to buy a lot of the buildings that came out, but by then the Green Grocer had been discontinued and could only be bought on eBay for $650 or more. It has always been the one that got away and we have referred to it over the past 15 years as "The Green Grocer Incident".
A few months ago I heard T talking about how Uncle B and Cousin E had gotten a parts list from a discontinued Lego set and hunted down all the pieces and built it themselves. I messaged Cousin E in December to ask if that would be possible with the Green Grocer and he went to work on it. He found almost all of the pieces, with a few substitutes, from six different Lego sellers for me and got them all ordered!
T was very surprised!
The girls have heard this story many times so they were excited that he finally got the elusive Green Grocer! We are waiting on one more package and then he can finally build it! A dream 18 years in the making. Haha! Definitely worth it for our wonderful Daddy-O!
Papa's birthday was the next day! We did presents and cake with him when we went to piano lessons.
Make a wish!
We got him a heater for his desk in the shop.
Boo had another game that night so he and Noni went to that while we went to gymnastics and we all met up back at our house for a dinner of Panda Express later. It was a wonderful three days of birthday celebrations!
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