The weekend before Emma's birthday we celebrated with Great Grandma and also took Emma to the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. That was a grand time! Emma loved the dolphin show the best. We took a self family portrait while waiting for the show to start. There was some Hawaiian theme for the day so the first so-many people got real flower leis. Sometimes Emma still retells this part of the day: I said there was a seal swimming in the water and Mommy and Daddy said no there wasn't. But then Mommy looked and said, yes you are right Emma. There is something swimming in the water. It's a sea lion." We were walking up from the basement display area and hidden in the walls along the stairway was an aquarium area for the sea lions. If it hadn't been for Emma we would have missed them! (This is also an example of Emma's crazy good memory. It is actually shocking sometimes how well she remembers things that have happened a long time ago.) Emma got a new dolly from Great Grandma that she promptly named Baby Abby.
On Emma's birthday we had a small gathering of immediate family only. I tried to make a Jell-O aquarium with dolphins and a turtle but it didn't turn out like I had hoped. Did that phase Emma? Of course not! "What is that swimming in the Jell-O? A dolphin!" squealed Emma as she reached her hand in the fish bowl to pluck the toy out. After cake (Emma requested white cake with chocolate frosting so I made a triple layer cake to account for her three years) Emma opened presents. We gave Emma a book about a baby dolphin and the dollhouse that Great Grandma and Grandpa built and gave to me when I was a little girl. Emma loved it!
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