Rowan, Josh, and I celebrated on Rowan's actual birthday Thursday night. Josh took off early and we opened presents before heading out to the TRex Cafe. Rowan insisted we take the time to read each of the 5 books he received before moving on to the next gift!
Each year I try to get him at least one ornament. He helped me decorate the tree this year, so he was excited to find the perfect place for his new knit dog!
Rowan's big gift from Mom and Dad this year was an activity table filled with his finger paints, Tadoodles, crayons, sidewalk chalk, and Play Doh. He LOVES all things art, so this was the perfect gift. We also figured he could play with his blocks or the train set he's getting for Christmas on it too. We loved this one because of the rolling storage bins (we always need storage- especially space-saving storage) and the paper roll. He also got a big pad of paper. And yes, I was being proactive by going ahead and ordering the splat mat to protect the floors! Hopefully this will go in the basement next summer after its finished, but for now this space works. It was a hit!
After gifts and pictures, we headed out to T Rex Cafe. Rowan loves dinos and all animals really, but we weren't sure whether he would be scared of their loud roars. He hates loud noises! He was frightened for a while so he ventured off away from the noise to dig for dinosaur bones.
Fortunately our seat was away from the larger dinosaur, although we could still hear him! We sat underneath a huge octopus and directly behind our booth was a large aquarium.
During dessert, Rowan and Josh left me to play in the sandbox again, so I happily worked on the "Chocolate Extinction" by myself! Before we left, we went and checked out the upstairs. Even more aquariums and creatures. By this time, Rowan was no longer scared and didn't want to leave. Go figure! Even if he was scared in the beginning, this ended up being a great adventure for him AND Josh and I enjoyed all that T Rex had to occupy us during down time!
Rowan thought blowing out the candles on his giant Hot Cocoa Cupcake was so fun! So much so that we kept re-lighting them until they wouldn't light anymore!
The next day he got to enjoy his new tent. LOVE IKEA! This was the best $10 I've ever spent! And check out that static electricity!
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