Storknesting Day 17

Stephen didn't get a little baby boy for his birthday, had already received his birthday present (the basketball hoop), was tired of pizza (which is rare for Stephen but we had just had it on Monday for Emerson's birthday), and was without a proper cake because our hotel doesn't have any cake pans. Not a very exciting 26th birthday. But it is difficult when you are away from your house waiting for a baby to be born that seems quite content staying inside his mother's tummy. We did however have a yummy breakfast of pancakes, sausage, strawberries, and whip cream. It was actually more of a brunch by the time we ate it. Stephen worked on stuff for his online class which is another sad thing to have to do on your birthday. Emerson decided that we should have another bubble party for Stephen's birthday, so we went back to Mildenhall to pick up some more bubbles. While we were there Emerson had his first shop lifting experience. He had found a football and was walking around the store holding on to it. When we went to pay for our stuff he started walking out the door ready to take it home with him. We went after him and got him to put the ball back with the promise that he could hold his bubbles after we had paid for them. Then we went home and had our bubble party, ate some cheese tortillas, and thought about names for the puppies. We currently have paired up a couple possibilities: Piper and Paisley, Maple and Honey, and Tiger and Lilly. Later on in the evening we watched a movie and ate some dinner. Then after the movie we made Stephen's birthday banana cream pie and sang to him. Emerson was a big helper and brought Stephen his unlit birthday pie.


And then when we started singing Emerson kept smiling (I think he thought we were singing to him). He then helped Stephen blow his candles out and wished Stephen a 'happy birthday' at least 5 or 6 times. We played with Emerson's new ball that he got yesterday. (We decided that since he didn't already have that kind of a ball that we didn't have a good reason not to get it.) Emerson likes how it gets stuck in the net and you then have to hit it out. Emerson went to bed early, Stephen did some more school work, and I did some scrapbooking.