I feel bad that our boys can't celebrate the way they were expecting this year. We allow them to have friend birthday parties on their even years of life, so this year was that year for both boys. Instead I'll let them make it up next year on their birthdays. (In fact, that kind of works out since we'll be moving next summer, they'll get to have one last hoorah with their friends!)
With Cade's birthday we were definitely in much more of a lockdown than we are today with Alex's birthday, but sadly since Texas has re-opened its businesses we've seen a steady increase in cases. This week has seen a dramatic increase in cases. Yesterday, in fact, San Antonio had the highest amount of cases in the whole state! Texas is a big state. So, we were going to go out to for a birthday dinner and dine-in for the first time since the pandemic started, but we just didn't think it was wise to do that when cases are on the rise. You have to remember that the data they release to us each day reflects people's health 7-14 days ago, so it's only going to get worse before it levels out. During the lockdown our city was only getting 50-70 cases a day. Yesterday, 408! All week they've been above 200!
Anyways, enough of that, and on to the birthday boy! We kept the day pretty low-key. The morning started off with cinnamon rolls and birthday presents! He got a Dungeons & Dragons starter set, personalized deck of cards (he collects playing cards), a Harry Potter cookbook, the new illustrated Goblet of Fire book, Harry Potter perler bead patterns, a chocolate frog shirt made by mom, cinnamon toast crunch, and...
...the fixings for a BETA FISH! He has been asking for a fish for forever. I was tired of dealing with caged animals and kept saying no because I end up cleaning their tanks and cages. But Dan found this awesome hydroponic fish tank that the plant and the fish work together to naturally clean and help them live! Sounds like a great solution.
He was so excited!
After fish shopping in the afternoon we got the homemade pizza ready and ate some cake! He really wanted a vanilla cake with vanilla frosting, and I'd had the H-E-B cakes at some parties before, so we ordered from them. Turned out great!
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| He named the fish "Darvil", a McBride family name |
For the pizza, since we couldn't go to Texas Roadhouse like he wanted, we made a special flavor, Philly Cheesesteak! We only make this type of pizza every so often, so it's definitely a special treat. Mmm.... so good!
As Alex so accurately described his day, "I'm just getting rewarded for living another year!" Lol. Happy Birthday bud, we love you!!
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