happy birthday to you

We have this habit, in our house, of celebrating birthdays in an extended manner, particularly if one is unfortunate enough to have the actual birthday-day fall on a weekday. Ryan's birthday is on Tuesday, so we had the largest phase of our birthday celebration today, being as how it is Saturday and inherently more fun. We went to Magnolia for breakfast, with Kelly. We got there at 8 in the morning, which was perfect. I didn't get overly hungry waiting to eat (eating late breakfast is a blood sugar nightmare for me), it was uncrowded, and we enjoyed the quiet city when we walked around afterward. Ryan got to eat eggs, something we don't do at home these days due to Sophie's allergy...and I had a totally awesome sesame tofu scram(ble). Sophie shared with me, but she mostly ate her fruit cup - watermelon, plum slices, mango cubes, and strawberries. Lucky girl.

We came home and I made a vegan coconut lemon bundt cake while Sophie slept. Shawn, Meg and family came over for cake and dinner, along with Kelly Jean. Sophie and I gave Ryan his big birthday present - a front-mount child bike seat, so Ryan can take Sophie for bike rides. After everyone left, we had strawberries and cream and sniffed the daffodils Kelly brought (Sophie says "Smells good.")

It was a good day. We will have a mini-celebration on Tuesday, too...there will be lasagna. Now I am going to finish watching a movie and snuggle with the birthday gentleman. ;)