Happy birthday, Daddy!

Saturday was Steve's birthday. We had a day jam-packed with fun! It started with Stephen helping Daddy unwrap his presents. Stephen's favorite part was the wrapping paper. In fact, the paper is still being played with.

As I've mentioned before, our city is much like a small town. Every August, they have a 10-day festival which includes all kinds of activities. It culminates on the last Saturday with a parade down Main Street. It happened to be this past Saturday, so we walked to one of our favorite restaurants along the street and got a seat on their rooftop patio. This was a perfect spot to watch Stephen's first parade. He enjoyed watching all the people along the street and bouncing along to the music played by the marching bands.

Stephen got a short nap as we walked around after the parade and as we walked back home. We ate a quick lunch. Then we headed to the Colorado Rockies baseball game with Aunt Kathy. The game started at 2:00 and ended after 7:00 after going 13 innings! Luckily, the Rockies came away with a win over the Dodgers, 7-6. Stephen was awake for the entire game! As soon as I would think he was falling asleep, he would pop up and move around some more. He was a very good boy and once again enjoyed watching all the people.

My cute little thumb-sucker

Todd Helton was celebrating his birthday also!

 We ended the day with a nice dinner at a downtown restaurant. Stephen finally fell asleep in the car on the way home after being awake for 8 hours. It was a wonderful day to celebrate our favorite Daddy!