HAPPY BIRTHDAY INDY!

We celebrated Indy's 12th Birthday this past Tuesday, 2/6. Actually, we celebrated beginning last Friday and all the way through Tuesday! We LOVE Birthdays here at the Ogle Home. We celebrate for an entire weekend (plus our special day if it falls during the week!) by basically doing anything the Birthday boy or girl wants to do. How cool is that????

Indy got to choose where we ate. Which is pretty huge. As most of you know, we eat out A LOT :) Indy had baseball practice on Saturday afternoon followed by family cosmic bowling. Baseball practice again Sunday followed by more bowling with neighbor Matthieu, Scott and Indy and topping off the weekend with Scott, Esprit and Indy playing pool at BigShots.

Come Tuesday morning Indy was presented with his "Birthday Tie" (see photo). This is Indy's equivalent to the "Birthday Tiara". I decorated a black silk tie with a birthday candle followed by 12 marks, one for each year. The idea is for Indy to wear this tie on every birthday, we'll add a new mark every year. Esprit and I drove Indy to school, walking him to the playground and making sure the "boys" knew it was his special day. They were all quite impressed with "the tie" and buddy Cory said he would make sure it stayed on all day! (By day's end the fabric paint I used was lifting off the silk, to I'll have to find another tie and embellish that for our tradition to continue)

At lunch time, Scott came home and inflated 30 balloons for Indy to be greeted with when he arrived home from school. Indy LOVES balloons and had a huge smile when he walked in the door!

Not long after, it was off to baseball practice. We took cupcakes to celebrate and Indy was serenaded by his teammates. We completed the evening with dinner at Don Jose's, without Esprit as she had class (:

Happy Birthday, Indy. I Love You.

Mommy