We actually celebrated her birthday yesterday with an ice cream cake from DQ that they painted with flames per my request and then we bought an Iron Man cake topper. She was kind of really weirdly excited...
The Iron Man part actually lights up, which totally added to the flames aspect of the thing. Slightly ironic to have a flaming ice cream cake...
Anywho, we ate a lovely dinner that my older sister Jennie cooked while I was upstairs working and freezing to death. There's nothing more cozy than being upstairs in a candle and twinkle light lit room working your butt off while the lovely smells of a delicious dinner fill your nose.
We ate as a family for the third time in two days! This is unheard of at my house anymore, usually we fend for ourselves because we're all on different schedules. As soon as we were done we had to do the cake because Dad and I had to get back to work. In fact, I was ten minutes late due to eating the non-chocolate parts of the cake. Mom and I set it up, lit the candles and then sang Happy Birthday in harmony, our little musical family tradition.
Then she opened her big present. Mom and Dad bought her more of the heavy dishes she registered for at Bed Bath and Beyond so now she has four place settings instead of just two!
Anyway, I'm off to go shower and then bend my leg a lot because apparently if I don't get my left leg back to full motion by tomorrow at 11am my doctor will knock me out and do it for me, and as I'm driving myself that would be really bad news. Wish me luck!
