B-B-B-B-Birthday!

To day was a wonderful day. Not because I stepped foot out of the house, because I didn't. It was wonderful b/c for the first day of my 26th year I was able to 1) sleep in a bit 2) send Oliver off for a date with dad and sleep all the while they were gone and 3) spend some time staring at my baby boy while big brother was taking a nap (rare). Oh and this was all made much more delicious by wearing a purple house coat the.entire.day.

But for the actual birthday I will leave this account for the vault:

Yesterday I went to lunch with my mom and sister and two the two handsome gents I spend all my time with. Oliver charmed the pants off the waitress, as usual, as I leaned over to Dashel and whispered "you are cute too!" For a birthday treat we went to an ice cream place that freezes it in front of you with liquid nitrogen. This was pretty fascinating to all of us but especially for Ollie, who spent his time running around like a crazy person BEFORE he got his ice cream, staring saying "hot hot" at the nitrogen fog, eating a bowl of ice cream entirely too big for him and running around like a crazy person AFTER his ice cream chasing the store owners kid saying "boy! boy!" This was all good fun, but the ice cream was a fail and ill stick to u-swirl. My mom and sister were lovely, however:)

We got home and all three of us had a lovely nap and woke up just in time for me to get ready for a date with Mr. Harrison. Oliver got to go out for pizza while Andrew, Dashel and myself set off for an unknown destination. We went to Pho Nouveau and the lady said "oh yes table for 4 reserved this way" I have to admit this is where I started to think of how to not let Andrew in on how annoyed/disappointed I was. I wanted some TIME ALONE WITH MY MAN, what the heck was he thinking inviting who knows who out on the one date we've had in forever!!!?  Well in walked our friends Matt and Ivy Walker and  I felt silly- my husband had a total score like a pro. We all had a very fun time with amazing food and lots of laughter and ended the evening with some shut -he-front-door good french desserts at Cafe de Paris. Sweet Dashel slept the entire time, waking only to tell us to get to our movie already. So we fed him, dropped him off with Meemah and hustled to the show. We saw kids getting all murderous in hunger games and the show ended with the grand finale of my boobs telling me to hurry home and feed the baby. I went to bed at 1 and felt very satisfied and accomplished.

It was all so much fun that I woke up with a birthday hangover, where my body tried to communicate that I am 26 now and therefore need to slow down and get to bed at a reasonable hour. But aside from that I can say that I am so happy to be 26. I've learned a lot in 26 years, chiefly that I have a lot more to learn. I have a gorgeous family that I LOVE TO PIECES and have access to as many beautiful, spiritual, funny, talented, kind and generally great people as I can handle. Here's to number 26, I think I'll save 30 for feeling blue.