Monday, September 26, 2016
You probably expected the title to be something about a 2-year-old’s birthday. But that’s the thing! It is! Selah Juney had an amazing, adventure-full day with all the adrenaline that sharks and lightening as well as cupcakes and bubbles bring.
She woke up excited to go to the beach! – A promise I made last week that she never once wavered from seeing to fruition. I’ve been sick, so I didn’t know how it would go, but the weather was beautiful… at least for the first 45 minutes we were out there. I’m glad her birthday is in late September. It doesn’t compete against any other birthdays. I’ll never have scheduling conflicts with work obligations. The weather I perfect this time of year. And there’s always the possibility of hurricane days.
We had a delicious breakfast of BBQ chips and picked up Mimi, Satie, and Sebastian for our adventure. We got out there at about 10, saw baby sharks (about 18 -24 inches), saw a HUGE pink jellyfish, played with a new Disney’s Little Mermaid bubble wand, and got shewed off the beach by a thunder storm. I haven’t been soaked like that out at the beach and not by the ocean in a very long time.
We came home and all took baths and got cleaned up for birthday lunch at Chick-fila. Selah June wanted to play her bubble wand in the car on the way to lunch, so I said “what the heck.” Bubbles never hurt anything, right? (Let’s hope so…because a lot of bubble juice is now in my car.)
I ordered a family pack of 30 nuggets, and this little munchkin chowed down. She ate more than both the other kids combined. They went and played, and she kept on eating nuggets. I have no idea how many she ended up eating. It was A LOT! She’s a growing girl! Apparently, 2-year-olds eat more than 1-year-olds.
When SJ started to hit her nap time wall, we hurried over to Jessica’s house for some birthday cupcakes. Little Miss had a unique way of eating them.
I might not have felt very well, but it did my heart a lot of good to spend this special day with this very special little girl. This is definitely going to be a Mommy tradition. What a FULL day!!
p.s. – I guess I should mention the Zika. A very suspicious mosquito made it into the car after lunch, and we all thought it looked a lot like a Zika carrier. We can neither confirm nor deny the facts. The mosquito is no longer of this world.