Alice’s birthday party

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Today, we celebrated Alice’s birthday with a big party.  Janie helped set-up the table with Uncle Johnny and Daddy.

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She had a buffet of tasty Thai food including noodles, rice, chicken, fruit, and Mommy’s favorite tapioca balls.

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She made another bag at the craft table and insisted on having 3 eyes and a bunch of puff balls on it.

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This girl loves gluing stuff!

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Janie was also very good about telling Mommy when she had to use the toilet.  We still had pull-ups on her but she managed to stay dry!

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Here she is with 2nd cousins Cole and Brandon and Cousin Alice, the birthday girl!

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Of course there was cake and it was paradise cake again from King’s Hawaiian!  She had the same cake for her first birthday!

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Alice woke up in time to blow out the candle.  Unfortunately, she didn’t want any part of the cake.

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Toward the end of the party, Janie was tired since she stayed up through her nap.  Here she is pretending to sleep on the bench next to Daddy.  Funny girl.  I wish she actually did sleep on that bench.  What a fun party!
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Train to San Mateo

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For dinner, we rode the train to San Mateo to meet up with Auntie and Uncle.  It was also our way of escaping the World Series crowds.

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Janie sat in her own seat by the window and enjoyed her after-nap snack.

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Then we watched all the cool stuff that we passed on our way down to our destination.

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She was also very good about staying in one place while we waited to disembark.

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It was still a little early for dinner so we stopped for ice cream at CREAM.  That’s where we met up with Auntie and Uncle.

The store was nice and empty so there was plenty of room for Janie to do laps and dance at the same time. I wasn’t a fan of her new fall-on-her-knees move. We squashed that one pretty quickly. Otherwise, it was funny watching her perform for the girls behind the counter.

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As we walked across the street to dinner, it started to pour.  Janie started out walking with Uncle Jason but mid-way through she screamed “CARRY!!”  Everyone was soaked.

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After dinner, we still had an hour before our train would arrive so we went to a bar nearby to see part of the baseball game.

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Janie had some milk at sat on a bar stool with all the grown-ups.

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By the time we got to the train station, she was so tired.

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But not too tired to wave to the train coming from the other direction!

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The ride home was comfy but the people seated around us were pretty loud and rowdy.  Oh well.

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burgers and running

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For dinner this evening, we went out for burgers at SuperDuper.  She brought BigGG and GG along and had them sleeping on her legs.  Funny girl.  Janie ate a bunch of pickles and hamburger meat.  She also enjoyed the music playing in the restaurant and wiggled to the tune as she ate.

Here’s a video of her eating, talking, and dancing to the background music.  Click here if you can’t see the video above.

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Afterward, she burned off her dinner with lots of running along Pier 14 and The Embarcadero.

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I think she ran at least a total of 1/2 a mile that evening.  She had her hands fisted and arms pumping like a real runner too.

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