Mommy's Birthday!

Suzanne's birthday was on Saturday and that means she got to decide what to do with the day. We started our day at Emma's favorite coffee shop, The Brickyard. Apparently, that was the one thing that Suzanne didn't get a choice on. I asked Emma to go ask her Mommy where she wanted to go for breakfast and promptly heard Emma run in to the other room and announce in a loud, excited voice, "Mommy, we're going to the Brickyard for breakfast!"

After sitting and enjoying our coffee and watching the trolleys, a huge freight train and a passenger train go by, Suzanne and I headed back to the apartment for our camera and it was off to Scripps Aquarium.

After the aquarium, Suzanne decided that it was hot and what better way to spend a super hot day, than in air conditioning. So off we went to California Pizza Kitchen for some Waldorf salads, then sat in a nice cool theater watching Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. The book was recently introduced to us by one of my co-workers as it was his favorite when he was a child, so we picked it up for Emma and she loves having it read to her. The movie is... loosely based on the book. But it is still fun nonetheless and I recommend it as family fun. Emma absolutely loved watching the movie and by half way through was happily snuggled in to her mommy.

After the movie, it was time to drop Mommy off at home for some Mommy time while Emma and I ran some errands. We picked up all the ingredients we needed to make curry, some chocolate ice cream cake with chocolate ice cream, chocolate frosting, chocolate cake and some extra added chocolate with chocolate flavoring (Suzanne's favorite), and some naan from KC Tandoor in Mission Valley. We went home, fired up the stove, prepared some fabulous curry (if I do say so myself) and sat down to eat with my family, Suzanne, and Emma.

After dinner, I had to go run out to get candles as they never made it in to the bag on the errand run. Can't have birthday cake without candles! And all 24 fit too. :)

Sunday, we decided to continue the fun, so we took Suzanne to her very own toy store. (Anthropologie). She got a couple of dresses and by the time we got home, had decided she needed to wear one of them later that day. After Emma's non-nap, we went to go for an afternoon coffee at the Brickyard only to discover that it is closed at 2pm on Sundays. We decided to walk over to Seaport village and walk around like tourists for a bit. Suzanne and Emma had to go for a ride on the carousel and I managed to grab a couple of quick pics.

Afterwards it was out to the point for some leisure time as Emma ran herself ragged.She, of course, made a couple of quick stops to give Mommy and Daddy cuddles.


And a passerby decided we needed a picture as a whole family. He was sure to tell us more than once that he was from Clairemont. I don't think he believed we were San Diego residents.


Just a glimpse of what happens behind mommy's back!

Taking these pictures was very hard due to laughter. Emma kept running back and forth as each picture was snapped. Scroll really fast to get an idea of what I am talking about.