Thirty-two sounds pretty old for some reason. I am way, way younger than almost everyone we associate with (this is what happens when you have kids starting young) so Tommy is much more average-aged with everyone we know, but it still seems weird that he is moving closer to his mid-thirties! I still feel like we are grad students, but in the last two years we have totally moved away from that life and are full-on suburban parents with a house and a minivan and 2.5 kids. Ha! It sounds even worse when I say it like that.
Anyways, Tommy's birthday was the day after we got back from Houston. I was thinking about his birthday all month of November and wanting to get him something good and thoughtful, but he is so hard to buy for. Even he doesn't know what he wants! I got him a few things but then showed my love through making really good food for his birthday breakfast and dinner--which meant literally 4-5 hours in the kitchen between all the different aspects of what I planned. But I was really happy to do it to hopefully give him a happy birthday. It was a quiet, normal day--he had to go to work, and I cooked my way through naptime and the afternoon, but he got his favorite stroganoff and salad and grasshopper mint pie like he wanted. For everything Tommy does for us all every day, I wanted him to at least have a good dinner and dessert on his birthday!
Bacon, eggs, and banana-chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast. And egg nog!
Dane wrapped up a couple of sticks in Tommy's blue robe (at the bottom of this picture) and gave them to him as a present. He really really wanted to paint them with Tommy as his present to Tommy, haha. It was super funny how serious he was about this random present.
Dane also spent maybe 45 minutes making a blockade in front of the door so Tommy couldn't come in when he got home. He has interesting taste in birthday surprises. It took another 45 minutes for us all working together to clean it all up.
The pie--which Dane helped to make! And he really wanted Tommy to match him with their Denmark shirts, haha.
Singing happy birthday to Daddy.
Graham was trying to blow out the candle from his seat. So cute.
Tommy is truly the best. I always want to make birthdays so exciting and awesome, but usually in real-life expectations that isn't possible. So as low-key as this was, I was trying to show him how much we love him. He deserves the best birthday!
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