There’s a park that I pass every morning on my way to work – it’s just before I get on the freeway. I’ve passed this park hundreds (probably thousands) of times now, but especially on weekends now I find myself smiling as I pass.
There’s three covered picnic tables with barbecues that are in use just about every weekend for what I presume are birthday parties. Seeing the gazebo covers decorated with streamers and balloons and the table piled high with food and gifts makes me look forward to the future. I remember birthdays in the park when I was very small. It never occurred to me that we might one day have birthday parties there at the park as well.
I can imagine a party with a cake with a dinosaur on it (yes, my kid is gonna love dinosaurs – Mama has spoken) and hot dogs on the barbecue, with my little guy running around in shorts, glossy curls bouncing as he chases a friend with a fluorescent-colored squirt gun. I can hear his laughter drifting to me on the warm summer breeze.
I never, ever thought about stuff like this before. Well, not in many years. It was just torture to think about what would never be ours. But now I smile every time I pass the park and wonder what color the dinosaur should be.
I also remember yours and Oin’s birthday parties in the park. One year your Mom and I made Oin a dinosaur cake. During the process of getting the dinosaur picture put on the cake, the cake broke down the middle a couple of times. We would “cement” it back together with icing. By the time we got done, the cake looked great but it weighed about 15 pounds – I swear – because of all the extra icing we’d used as “glue”. What a fun day that was!
DINOSAURS ARE AWESOME! It should be green ’cause green is the most awesomest color ever. Just saying.
P.S. Am I coming over this weekend to help paint the nursery?? I have to babysit at 6 and Mom has to work at 3, but we can come over from like 10 to 2 if that’s ok?
I’m pretty sure all boys love dinosaurs. And trucks. And Batman.
Any color dinosaur would be great – just, please, not purple! LOL I’m so happy for you – have I mentioned that before? Following your pregnancy has been such a blessing! I am SO happy for all THREE of you!! :)
What a lovely post, really lovely
I smiled right along with you as I read that. Along with happy tears of joy, too. :)
I don’t know that I’ll be brave enough to make birthday cakes like you and Mom did. I remember some pretty awesome decorated cakes!