We had fun preparing for Owen's 1st birthday. Having him this year has been one of the biggest joys Paul and I have ever experienced. I loved dreaming up ideas for a day to celebrate. I wanted to make plans and get things done plenty ahead of time so when the day came we could be with him. The pictures above are from different times that we made things for his party. It was so fun to see it all come together as we hung the bunting, made the cake and got all the last minute things together.I can't wait to share the pictures from his party!
Happy 4th of July! What did you do for the 4th? Every year we join friends at a festive 4th of July party. It is the cutest 4th of July party you have ever seen. They start the party off with a Push em' Pull em' parade! All the kids dress up and decorate some thing to be pushed in or pulled in (or ride on). Paul pulled Owen in his new red wagon my parents gave him for his first birthday. He dragged his blue dump truck behind him filled with his favorite animals all dressed up. What could be cuter then a whole bunch of kids all dressed up in a parade? We had an egg toss contest, pie eating contest and ate a yummy dinner before heading down the hill to have homemade ice cream while waiting for the fireworks. Owen had a blast! He even liked the fireworks! He looked up with big eyes and said "whooow".
We took our little baby beluga to Sea World in San Diego! We are in town for Paul's twin brothers wedding. We wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to take our little boy to Sea World. He loved it! We arrived at the park and ran right to the orca show. The second a killer whale came out from "back stage" Owen was flailing his arms wildly, pointing and yelling, as if trying to talk to his new whale friend. The whale would jump out of the water and Owen would look with big eyes. Every time the whale dove down under the water Owen would cry because he didn't want him to go away. It was so cute to watch him!
As we wandered around the park Owen had big eyes and spent most of the day pointing and loudly talking to the animals. He loved the killer whales, sea turtles and of course the beluga whales. One of the lullaby's I sing to him most often is "baby beluga in the deep blue sea". It was special sitting on the side of the beluga tank with him on my lap and watching the belugas swim around.
The one animal that Owen did not like was the walrus. As you can see in one of the picture above Owen was right up against the glass when the walrus spit out his food and then munched it back up. Owen was terrified of the big fat walrus from that point on. Pesky walrus.
We had a wonderful day making memories as a family! We are here in San Diego several more days and then the wedding is on Sunday afternoon.
PS I am so excited to post about Owen's 1st birthday party! We left town to drive down right after his party and I have not had much time to go through all of the pictures. There are a lot of pictures and it is so hard to choose! I may have to do several posts. :)
