We loved celebrating Austin's birthday this week. He's such a joy to have in our family.
The Haderlies wanted to come and celebrate Austin, too, so we started his birthday celebration on the 22nd. He picked that he wanted to go to the Thanksgiving Point Curiosity Museum.
Side Note: Imagine my delight when we saw that there was a new Daniel Tiger Exhibit. I could hear the kids from up ahead "Mom is going to be so excited!" They know that I love Daniel Tiger and clearly they were right. I was SO happy. It was all my Daniel Tiger dreams come true. The big kids walked around for a minute, then Jenna left with them to another area and Lucy and I stayed in this Daniel Tiger area for quite a while. I love Daniel Tiger and I loved this exhibit! Lucy is at the perfect age for DT and we loved experiencing this together.
The day of his birthday, he woke up to a Happy Birthday sign from the primary (I love that they do this) then we headed to Swinging Bridge Picnic area with our homeschool field trip group. This is one of Austin's favorite places to go and it was fun to go with our friends and show them the small nature walk and just spend time together. The highlight waws that they were cutting down some trees in one of the areas and we got to watch them work together to cut off all the branches and even saw a giant tree fall.
We stopped at the Thanksgiving Point Tower for an ice cream sundae on our way home.
We had a small birthday party with just the Peaden Family members that could come (and we had a separate but identical party with the Walkers on Sunday). Food, presents, then cake & ice cream while we watched his birthday video.
This year he wanted a rocketship cake and he helped me plan out what it would look like and took great care to add all of the candy decorations by himself.
Happy Birthday Austin, We love you and enjoyed celebrating you this week!
