The kids are very excited about birthdays now that they're getting a bit older and have some memories to pull from. Yesterday evening they checked in to make sure Opa was getting a cake (Red Velvet!), and what's more? They wanted to know exactly what time today we'd get to eat it.
This morning Viva woke up, and when I asked her what today was she knew it was Opa's birthday! She headed downstairs right away to say Happy Birthday. What a sweet girl.
They are also concerned about presents. They like to see gifts being opened. So today the twins helped me wrap up Opa's gift, and then Jake informed me that we needed to get Opa a balloon. Off to the store we went! Viva picked a card, all on her own, and Jake picked the balloon.
We had roladin, dumplings, and red cabbage (Opa's traditional birthday dinner). All 3 kids liked the meat, but apparently the texture of dumplings isn't all that in the eyes of the toddlers. More for us, right? After dinner we had cake and presents. Then Bentley suggested that Opa might want to watch some Dr. Who (they know it's a favorite show of his) - off they went downstairs!
We hope you had a fun birthday, Opa! Thanks for being so good to us, we love having you around!
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