As a present from us, Thing 2 got this because he loves to “cook” food so much:
Maybe he’ll be a famous chef someday. He does have an opinion about all foods, you know. To quote him: “I like all foods and 3 vegetables.” And he goes around smelling things an awful lot. Soaps at the health food store, shampoo, rocks, metal--to Thing 2, everything has a very distinctive smell. He’s like Gus and the Super Sniffer. Genetically speaking, though, he gets it from me. I have a Super Sniffer, too.
And the best part of it all is that Thing 2 can’t pronounce the “sm-” sound combo yet, so he talks about “fmelling” things all the time. This makes it 100 times better.
Thing 1 got Thing 2 an awesome Playdoh pizza maker, in keeping with the chef theme, because Thing 1 is the best big brother ever.
And then, as his other big present, we took Thing 2 to the Children's Museum in Salt Lake City on the Saturday after his birthday. The Children’s Museum is a super cool place to hang out with your kids for a few hours. Our kids did things like this:
But then, after our day of fun, we went back to our car in the parking garage and it wouldn’t start. Um, not so fun. Thank you parking garage attendant man with the battery charger thing! The birthday joy would definitely have been seriously marred without you.
After the car was jumped, I was a jumpy, nervous wreck driving through the construction mangled streets of downtown SLC with the power levels in the car fluctuating. Oh, how I prayed that the car would get us to the nearest auto parts store and not stop in the one lane traffic! And how thankful I am that it did!
Even though the jaunt to SLC cost us a bit more than expected with the new battery added to the total, it was a pretty awesome day. We had lots of fun at the museum. We got to hang out in a parking garage (wha?!--I mean, how often do you get to do that?!). We met a very nice guy at the auto parts store who put in our battery for us and politely declined to shake hands with Mr. Knightley since his (the auto guy's) hand looked like it had been dipped in grease a few times that day. Maybe it really had been. I don't know. And we finished the night with some Crown Burger. Sweet! Enough said. :)
P.S. This was Thing 2's "All About Me" poster that we made for his preschool birthday celebration:
And yes, we fit in the requested chocolate cake with chocolate frosting with G-ma, G-pa, and Auntie V that birthday week, too.
Really, why celebrate for just one day when you can celebrate all week?
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