Getting measured by daddy. She grew a whole 5.5inches since her last birthday!
Yesterday was Anna's birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, our little TWO YEAR OLD! Since the camping plans fell through,we went to the Houston Rodeo. I am glad we did. Paul and I have been avoiding the rodeo since the first year we moved there. Mostly because it's a bad combination of Texans and crowds. (No offense to Texans...who are my friends reading this blog, that is...).
Anyway, the weather was great and the sun stayed behind the clouds. There was a huge carnival and even a really cool area just for kids that consisted of rides, pony rides, a petting zoo, and just all kinds of cool stuff. Plus every type of carnival food you could imagine and yummy barbeque! All of the staff there were super friendly, and everything was so organized and easy. There were no crowds for a Sunday morning. Sooooo nice. The rides were super cool, too. We were totally surprised. We'll be going every year now. On a Sunday morning.
There were tons of Tweener girls there with "I LOVE JONAS BROTHERS" t-shirts who were going to the concert there that night. They were with their moms. It registered that that will be me one day. Even though I'm not a Jonas Brothers fan myself, how fun will it be to go to a concert like that with my daughter? Super fun.
When we arrived around 10am, Anna was already tired and ready for a nap. That's day 2 of that kind of early sleepiness, and we're not sure where it's coming from. Though frankly, we've all felt a little sluggish and sleep-deprived (could be the allergies everyone's experiencing right now). She was so tired most of the day, and she also didn't have much to say. Here are two sleepyheads on a ferris wheel...
On the rides, she seemed to have fun but made minimal comments unless prompted. There was one ride I took her on that was a little more "thrilling" than I thought it was gonna be, and she did great but I kinda freaked out, myself! Oops...
Now there's one HOT Daddy, no?
She rode a pony, rode a ferris wheel, and watched pig races :)
She also milked a fake cow (barely awake at this point):
We pushed her for fun till around 1pm when we headed home. She crashed in the car for the 20 min ride home, then woke when we got home and mercilessly didn't continue that nap, which we ALL desperately needed...she just played in her bed till Paul went up to get her.
Come 3:23pm I felt like I did 2 years ago at that exact time: like I needed a NAP.
The day ended with play and Ben & Jerry's ice cream for dinner. She was sooo grimy from such a busy weekend (frosting, June bugs, ponies, farm animals, carnival rides) that a good scrub in the tub put her in the right place for an early bedtime. She conked out by 7:45pm (which is 6:45pm still by her little internal clock, despite daylight savings time). So that was nice and early.
She slept like a rock all night. I think the weekend birthday activities were HARD PLAY! I know Paul and I could use a weekend recovery from that weekend ;)
Thanks to everyone who called to wish her happy birthday! She does like to talk on the phone though most of the time she's more intrigued with just staring at it and listening to you all :)
It was an exhausting day for all of us. But frankly it was more fun than child birth :)
Anyway, the weather was great and the sun stayed behind the clouds. There was a huge carnival and even a really cool area just for kids that consisted of rides, pony rides, a petting zoo, and just all kinds of cool stuff. Plus every type of carnival food you could imagine and yummy barbeque! All of the staff there were super friendly, and everything was so organized and easy. There were no crowds for a Sunday morning. Sooooo nice. The rides were super cool, too. We were totally surprised. We'll be going every year now. On a Sunday morning.
There were tons of Tweener girls there with "I LOVE JONAS BROTHERS" t-shirts who were going to the concert there that night. They were with their moms. It registered that that will be me one day. Even though I'm not a Jonas Brothers fan myself, how fun will it be to go to a concert like that with my daughter? Super fun.
When we arrived around 10am, Anna was already tired and ready for a nap. That's day 2 of that kind of early sleepiness, and we're not sure where it's coming from. Though frankly, we've all felt a little sluggish and sleep-deprived (could be the allergies everyone's experiencing right now). She was so tired most of the day, and she also didn't have much to say. Here are two sleepyheads on a ferris wheel...
On the rides, she seemed to have fun but made minimal comments unless prompted. There was one ride I took her on that was a little more "thrilling" than I thought it was gonna be, and she did great but I kinda freaked out, myself! Oops...
Now there's one HOT Daddy, no?
She rode a pony, rode a ferris wheel, and watched pig races :)
She also milked a fake cow (barely awake at this point):
We pushed her for fun till around 1pm when we headed home. She crashed in the car for the 20 min ride home, then woke when we got home and mercilessly didn't continue that nap, which we ALL desperately needed...she just played in her bed till Paul went up to get her.
Come 3:23pm I felt like I did 2 years ago at that exact time: like I needed a NAP.
The day ended with play and Ben & Jerry's ice cream for dinner. She was sooo grimy from such a busy weekend (frosting, June bugs, ponies, farm animals, carnival rides) that a good scrub in the tub put her in the right place for an early bedtime. She conked out by 7:45pm (which is 6:45pm still by her little internal clock, despite daylight savings time). So that was nice and early.
She slept like a rock all night. I think the weekend birthday activities were HARD PLAY! I know Paul and I could use a weekend recovery from that weekend ;)
Thanks to everyone who called to wish her happy birthday! She does like to talk on the phone though most of the time she's more intrigued with just staring at it and listening to you all :)
It was an exhausting day for all of us. But frankly it was more fun than child birth :)
3 comments:
So glad she had a good day. Sorry we didn't call. I didn't think of it until late.
I can't believe you haven't been to the Rodeo since you moved here. I guess we took your tickets that one time you were going to go with CS & JS after your butt surgery! We will probably head up there with Grandma and Grandpa next week.
Happy birthday big girl!
Looks like you had a fun day - sleep deprived and all!
Happy birthday Anna! We'll get to meet you one of these days:-)
Quick edit on the height, she grew 5.5 inches since her 1st birthday.
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