The Daily Hailey

Nope, you’re right, Rowan’s birthday was over a month ago. He turned one on February 23rd. We were all too sick to celebrate, and we’ve been in something of a whirlwind since then, or rather, long before then. We had bought some yummy treat-ish finger foods for his birthday supper, but we were all living on toast and soup at that point, and we never got there. Well today was finally the day that we basically squeezed in a birthday party. And if I’m being totally honest, I think it was the perfect party for all of us.

First, though, Brady had to go into work to finish off one hour of work. Lame, I know. But he brought home breakfast sandwiches and coffee for all of us. Win!

Rowan napped earlier than usual today. After his incredibly difficult last few evenings, we watched for him to get a bit sleepy, and then put him down in the late morning. He had a nice shorty nap and woke up happy. I had kept the kids up rather than napping them, so when Rowan woke up, we all settled into the living room and watched Home. We watched it once at our last rental and it was a hit. The music is upbeat and the characters are cute and likeable. We also found the “bad guy” to be portrayed well, not shown a ton, and we learned that he wasn’t actually “bad” in the end. It wasn’t a story of defeating anyone, but understanding. The kids love it.

After the movie, we loaded the kids into the van, my parents got into their car, and we all headed over to our new house. We finally got to tour my parents through it, which we’ve been anticipating. We’ve only been able to show the kids, and we’ve obviously seen it, but we haven’t had a chance to show anyone else in person. It was fun to traipse through and show new eyes what we are so very excited for. It was also nice to see what had been done since we were last there! From what we can tell, all of the plumbing rough ins are in, lots of electrical is done, but they’ll be back on Monday, and the roofing guy was even on site, hammering away while we walked around inside. The shingles are a solid half done, which I am thrilled about.

We came home and put Rowan down for another shorty nap, and once he was up about an hour later, we made his supper of popcorn chicken, smile fries, and a big ol bowl of strawberries. Everyone ate great. The kids love meals that are dip-happy, and this was DEFINITELY a dip friendly meal. Rowan didn’t care much for the chicken, but I blame that on the eat of consumption of the fries. He ate lots of fries, drank lots of milk, and filled up on berries. We sang for him and had cake afterwards. We had made him a brownie in a round pan to make it look more like a birthday cake and less like a square, haha! But it was incredibly well received, as you can imagine. The kids buzzed until bedtime, and looking in their monitor, they are most definitely still buzzing. But I can’t blame them. I want more of that cake this evening. And some more strawberries.

I’ll leave you with pictures. I hope your day was as comfortable and low key as ours.

Happy birthday party, my littlest little! You are completely, perfectly, unreasonably loved.