Aaron is in Cincinnati, so we are postponing party and candles etc until he is home, but it was still a very special day! They twins woke up to obnoxiously loud birthday songs from Corbin at an unholy hour before he left for seminary, ate banana chocolate chip muffins that I baked the night before, and Sloane played happy Birthday for them on her cello.
Esme wore that birthday crown all day!
Ryan came with me to pick them up from school, and announced as we dropped him off at his car that he was picking up Soren from school so I could take them out for donuts and ice cream. They were SO excited.
I took them to Vargas Fruiteria in Rogers and the sweet owner made them the most over the top “super freak shakes” one chocolate strawberry shake, and one Nutella shake with a side of ice cream and donuts. So fun.
They chose to skip piano lessons and come home to watch Mulan with Corbin, Soren, Sloane and Ryan. (TV rotting after school on a weekday is a luxury). And then another suprise: a FaceTime call from Quincy!! On a week day! None of us expected this and the twins LOVED having Quincy all to themselves to tell about their day and hear some crazy mission stories from Q. Aaron and Reese and Logan eventually hopped on the call too.
Sloane had a pretty good attention struggle with it being the twins birthday. She wanted a turn with Quincy and didn’t want to let the twins hold the phone (or be in the room on her turn because she wanted to tell Q about a bday surprise she worked on). Her demands were loud and needy and Ryan called her into the other room with him and Soren. He and Soren also asked for a turn with Q while the twins took a call from Grammie on another phone. It was actually just a move to pass the phone to Sloane. I later found him feeding her fries instead of the dinner I made. 🤦🏻♀️ His defense line being, “as a you gets child I feel for her. And we do not negotiate with terrorists.”
The twins got fries, too. What a fun life these triplets have with so many older siblings to keep them perpetually spoiled. I hope they will look back at their childhood and remember feeling seen and cherished.
Bear and Esme are the best caboose go out crazy love train. It is such an honor to be their mother and I don’t ever want to take for granted the battle it was to call them ours forever. They are a living testimony of answered prayers. Sometimes in the chaos of every day (or envy of a jealous sibling) I try to imagine what our lives might be like without them in it and it’s incomplete. I’m forever grateful that we were chosen to be Bear and Esme’s forever family.
They fill our lives with so much love!
Happy Birthday to my favorite twins! I love you both!
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