Sunday, March 21, 2021

Happy birthday, Bogdan!

Bogdan's TENTH birthday was March 12th. We really had a lot of fun celebrating. He wanted to go to the petting zoo at the mall. Out of all of us, only Jaan had been there. Jaan's friends work there, so Jaan knows all the animals' names and personalities and how to approach them. I was surprised that Bogdan was a little overly cautious at first. He actually didn't want to touch any of the animals. Later he warmed up to them and fed and petted everything he could get his hands on. At lunchtime we fed ourselves at MacDonald's--all that animal feeding had made us hungry! Then we went back to the animals again.


Bogdan wanted one of the porcupine quills, and he was trying to move the porcupine to get a tiny one that had dropped. Jaan's friend said that the one he was trying to get was more like a hair than a quill, and he ran back to bring out a real quill for Bogdan. It's the size of a pencil!


Get ready for lots of photos....

























I loved how the first thing Bogdan did when we got home was to start drawing from our photos. Then he and I made brownies while the girls were at music/art lessons. When they came home I know I took photos of us singing happy birthday to Bogdan, but I don't know where those went? At the end of the day, I said that if the birthday boy had as much fun as I did, then his birthday was a success. And I think he did.

3 comments:

Mom said...

Bogdan showed us the porcupine quill, but did not share the story of getting it. And while we had already seen many of the photos, it's a delight to read about his birthday in retrospect. Certainly Bogdan must feel quite celebrated by this memorable day; we are definitely delighted to have him in the family.

Lindy Johnson said...

Love the pictures and the celebration! I hope you sang, “Old MacDonald” while you ate! What a special day for all.

Baba Julie said...

These are AMAZING pictures! We were so glad to see them the other day when we Skyped w/ the kids. It looks like it was just a WONDERFUL day and so fitting for Bogdan!! Big 1 - 0 !! They are ALL growing up SO FAST!! We love you all!!