It is absolutely unreal that Navy turned five today. How this girl is growing so quickly kind of makes me sick! But we had quite the day (especially after an entire day of sickies) where we celebrated until late into the night.
It all started off at 4:30 am when I surprised Navy in the “middle of the night” for a mommy and me date to donuts.
All of my kids love a night time donut run, and she has been asking for one for a long time — so jumped right up when I woke her.
After she picked out a donut for herself and everyone at home, she and I sat in the car as I told her about the day, five years before, when she came into my life as “the cleanest baby ever”!
Then I told her my five favorite things about her, and then we both went into the warm house and went back to bed.
Then this girl wanted to spend the day with cousins at the zoo.
So we met up with the Brockbanks and had a super fun day!
Foot massages.
Shoulder Rides.
Cousins!
Checking out who knows what?
Hanging with the hippos — the best attraction of the day for the second zoo visit in a row.
The Pips hanging on Megan’s shoulder.
Dash getting scared of the fake gorilla.
The hummingbird whose life I saved.
A group of Chinese tourists actually applauded me when I finally got this bird to safety.
These besties.
This tired little one as the day wore on.
Nothing a stroller ride couldn’t cure.
Apparently this was one great stroller ride because Dash conked out!
And the icing on Navy’s cake today was when Auggie told her she got to pick something from the gift shop.
I poo poo’d this backpack, but she loved it and Auggie ignored me!
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After a long day of walking around, we headed to Bluewater for a yummy dinner with everyone.
Let’s just say it did not disappoint.
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And then it was time to head home where Micah had a surprise waiting….
Her present all set up (a stand that serves a lot of purposes)…
…with a homemade cake made by him (with purple “Frozen” cake)…
…that was dug into immediately!
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I don’t think that anything we could have done that day would have beat out a day with cousins at the zoo, except possibly Frozen with the cousins.
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Happy Birthday to the spiciest/sweetest little 5-year-old girl in town!
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