This past Monday we got to celebrate Daddy's birthday! It was a fun and exciting day for all of us and Mommy was definitely grateful that baby boy Hufford didn't pick THAT day to be born. Envisioning years and years of trying to celebrate two separate people and birthdays on the same day for the rest of our lives - was not ideal to me. Granted if it had happened I would have come to terms with it. But just soooo glad it didn't.
Addison and I sent Daddy on to work that morning and then went about our day getting the last minute details taken care of. We ran a few errands and picked up his yummy cake. Then we were lucky enough to swing by and pick him up from work for an impromptu lunch date. And even better, he got permission to play hookie for the rest of the afternoon from work. And of course what did we do with our time? One of his favorite wishes: to spend the afternoon at a movie matinee eating corn and kicking back. We couldn't find anything we were dying to see so we opted for "Captain America" and luckily only shared the theater with two other lone guys. It was right at Addison's nap but no matter how hard I tried, she wasn't planning on sleeping. She enjoyed wandering the aisles while we enjoyed sitting back and watching the movie. It was cute but not the best out there by any means. I spent most of my time fretting about the cake sitting in the mini-van all by it's lonesome - luckily it survived.
After the movie we headed home and Addison and Daddy napped while I started cooking the famous "Skyline Chili" for dinner that evening. Mama Jean and Papa Joe were able to come over and visit and celebrate with us. The Skyline was delish and the company was even more wonderful. We got to watch Daddy open all of his presents - with Addison's help of course and we even got to sing to him and help blow out his candles. Addison is a professional birthday helper - she knows the ropes on unwrapping presents and blowing out candles. I don't think we'll ever have to worry about doing it all ourselves for the rest of our lives at this rate. So grateful for her.
Daddy enjoyed some Chicago Bears attire: A hoodie, a hat, a t-shirt, some relaxing pajama bottoms, and a Bears Fan plaque to adorn our walls with and a soon-to-be-released FIFA 2012 game. Can you tell he's just a little excited for football season to come? Now he's ready to sit back and cheer them on! He even got lucky and got to watch them that evening for one of their pre-games. Sadly they didn't win it but at least he still managed to enjoy his Birthday festivities.
Here are a few pictures of our exciting day.
Enjoying the movies and the poppies.
We are so very grateful that Daddy was born sooo long ago ;-). It's nice to be able to celebrate his birth but I think I spend almost every day celebrating him being born. At least in my own head and I sometimes try to make it a point to verbalize it. I'm very grateful to be lucky enough to be his wife. And I'm very glad that he can be the Daddy to my kids. He's a very very good one. One of my favorite things is to see just how much Addison loves to bask in his attention and love and soak it all up. She absolutely LOVES to wrestle with him any time of the day. So much so that if he stops wrestling, she'll lay down next to him, wiggle closer and closer to him, until he gets the hint and picks up the wrestling again. She is a little John-essa and I love it!
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Did you make that cake? If yes, I'm very impressed. If no, well, it's still pretty cool! Baby boy would have had to share his birthday with daddy and grandpa. Sheesh! Good thing he waited, but now he can come anytime :)
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