On Tori's actual birthday, we were in Mason City for one of John's rotations, so Tori had a little party with just mom and dad. The day turned out really well and John got off work really early in the morning, which let us spend a lot of fun time with daddy in the morning. We decided that we would take Tori to a place sort of like a tiny Chuck E Cheese's in Mason City called Cody Bear's Cave, but it didn't open until 4pm so we weren't going to start any of the birthday stuff until then. John is on-call just about everyday during this rotation, so of course knowing our luck he didn't get a single call that day until 4:30pm and had to take a guy to the OR for surgery. Happily he was done by 7pm, so we just started all the birthday stuff then and Tori got to stay up until 10pm on her birthday (which she thought was great).
Above Tori is eating her birthday dinner (pasta - her all-time favorite). Below is a video of us singing happy birthday and a picture of Tori licking the frosting off her cupcake.
Below are pictures of Tori and John playing with some of the video games at Cody Bear's Cave. Tori loves arcade games and had a blast!! There were a lot of fun exciting games, but the one she seemed to enjoy the most was the little truck that hardly moved.
Below are a few pictures of Tori opening some of her birthday presents from family.
Mom and Dad gave her the Beauty and the Beast tea set. She had seen it in the store with me while shopping for other friends' presents and told me she wanted it for her birthday. I think we have had multiple tea parties with every kind of tea (Tori's favorite to make is "hot chocolate tea") everyday since her birthday.
