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The Pagan Porch  The Hearth   Willa's birthday week Chat room Support Search RSS runboard.com       Sign up (learn about it) | Sign in (lost password?) TexasMadness Profile Live feed Blog Friends Miscellaneous info Administrator Global user Registered: 03-2007 Location: Austin, Texas Posts: 3972 Reply | Quote Willa's birthday week Willa turned 2 on April 4th. We took a lot of time to spend with her all week and had such a blast! The weekend before, we went to what we thought was going to be a small Renaissance festival. Turned out to be HUGE! Hundreds of booths and thousands of people. It was fun but a bit too hot and we just weren't prepared. Willa was surprisingly blase about the whole thing. She didn't seem to notice costumes, or jugglers or anything! She did LOVE the horses for the joist though. --Log in or sign up to see linked image content-- Somehow I walked away with only pictures of that! She sat on Papa's shoulders and clapped and cheered. Her grandparents then came and she had a good time bonding with them - it had only been since Christmas, so she saw them pretty recently, plus we Skype several times a week. On her actual birthday, we went out to the farm for a nice fun family day. Her cousins came too, so they all got to play and get filthy (what else do you do at a farm? ). Birthday cake (which she only ate one bite of!) --Log in or sign up to see linked image content-- Picking wild flowers to put behind their ears: --Log in or sign up to see linked image content-- Feeding the chickens: --Log in or sign up to see linked image content-- Kicking the chickens out of their wallow so the kids could play!: --Log in or sign up to see linked image content-- A few days later, we went on another adventure to a safari park. You drive through several hundred acres while various animals come up to the car to get treats. Willa was pretty unimpressed here too - she just kept calling everything a deer or a goat or a donkey. Guess it's hard to impress such a knowledgeable little one! But when we got to the ostriches, she was freaked out! They terrify me, and you could tell they were terrifying most of the other people in the park too. I swear they will take a finger off. We had some treats on the window and Willa backed way off and watched it gobble them down! --Log in or sign up to see linked image content-- And finally, we spent a lot of the remaining time with the grandparents just playing in the neighborhood and having picnics. We didn't get a picture of Willa in the bluebonnets like we have for her birthday the last two years (bad year for them), but we found a big patch of purple verbena in the park at the end of our [sign in to see URL] then couldn't get her to sit still! --Log in or sign up to see linked image content-- The weather was perfect and we spent several lazy afternoons in the yard. --Log in or sign up to see linked image content-- It was an awesome birthday week! 4/13/2012, 4:38 pm Share Link to this post Send Email to TexasMadness   Send PM to TexasMadness Queenyforever Profile Live feed Blog Friends Miscellaneous info Registered user Global user Registered: 01-2007 Location: Walking a new path in Nature. Posts: 3596 Reply | Quote Re: Willa's birthday week That sounds like the best Birthday ever!! Son was never impressed with people or shopping either, but he loved petting zoos and wildlife parks. And you are [sign in to see URL] think it might be a RULE some place that one MUST get dirty on a farm! Thank you for sharing... --- ✴ Birthplace: Earth ✴ Race: Human ✴ Politics: Freedom ✴ Religion: Love♥ 4/13/2012, 8:45 pm Share Link to this post Send Email to Queenyforever   Send PM to Queenyforever Blog Firlefanz Profile Live feed Blog Friends Miscellaneous info Administrator Global user (premium) Registered: 05-2003 Location: Germany Posts: 5712 Reply | Quote Re: Willa's birthday week Lovely pictures! It's so good you took time to celebrate her birthday, and time to relax.   --- - Firlefanz Mystical Adventures Hannah Steenbock The Pagan Porch 4/14/2012, 12:37 pm Share Link to this post Send Email to Firlefanz   Send PM to Firlefanz Blog Saijen SilverWolf1 Profile Live feed Blog Friends Miscellaneous info Head Administrator Global user Registered: 03-2010 Posts: 3632 Reply | Quote Re: Willa's birthday week I'm glad you were able to take the time to just spend with her and her grandparents. She may not have been overly impressed with the Ren Faire, or the Safari thing, but she'll always remember that Mommy and Daddy took the time to spend with her like that. Even at 2, she won't forget that. Sometimes it's not what you do, but who you do it with that makes something worth keeping tucked away in your memories. LOVED the pics!! She's such a cutie, and I really hope I get to meet her in person in June. A lot depends on if A has had Keira yet or not. If she does have her before I head back [sign in to see URL]'m going to try to get down there to see y'all on either the Sat. or Sun. that's in the middle of the time I'm there. That way, I won't be leaving her home alone with a [sign in to see URL] will be there with her. Anyway... just hoping I get to see y'all while I'm down there! --- "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" ~~@Saijen@~~ 4/16/2012, 4:46 am Share Link to this post Send Email to Saijen SilverWolf1   Send PM to Saijen SilverWolf1 Yahoo Add a reply Share [X] Powered by AkBBS 0.9.5b - Link to us - Blogs - Hall of Honor - - Create your free forum You are not logged in (login)