The Family: Simon's Birhtday Party

Simon had a party before his actual birthday at my parents house. We planned to go to the zoo on Saturday and so we wanted all the family to have a chance to celebrate with us. For some reason some of the pictures that I down loaded are not on the computer, so the first party is pretty sparse on pictures. We had a fun time at Grandma and Grandpa's. He was so proud to have everyone honoring him that night. At the bottom of the blog there is a video of Simon playing with his monster truck....don't miss it.

We drove to the zoo from the hotel in , Gladstone that we stayed at the night before. We got to the zoo at,9:00 am. My uncle Tom met us there. Simon was very excited because this day is his actual birthday. He kept asking where is my party, and my cake and presents. He forgot about all of that once we saw all the fun inside the gates.

IT was a little cold when we got to the zoo, so they all piled in to the stroller.

This one is out of place....can someone please explain to me how to delete the picture after you have already uploaded it???

Simon is feeding the bird at the zoo.

This one is a repeat, oops!

Wow! Could this little sweetie be any happier? No, I don't think so. She is hand feeding a bird from the zoo. You buy nectar from them and hold it up and they just fly down and perch on you and drink the juice.

This is the train that takes you around the, Washington park. It was so beautiful and very cool as the train had to do some maintenance work on the steam engine. He had to empty out the boiler line or something like that, and so we stopped for a minute and all of a sudden there was a ton of steam coming out of the engine of the train, totally cool.

This is a picture of the end of the day at the zoo. We had so much fun. We were there from, 9:00am till 3:30 pm. The kids were beat.

Simon had two opportunities to blow out candles this year. the one on the top is his actual B-day and the one on the bottom is from the party at my parents house.