Aunt Kay's Birthday

Today is Aunt Kay's birthday. We are so happy she's here with us to celebrate. We took her (and everyone else) to Dax's Gymboree class. The teachers were a little surprised to see 3 adults and 2 teenagers coming in to the class! As usual, Dax had a great time and we enjoyed watching Aunt Kay play with Dax. Dane and Chance both took Gymboree classes when they were little, so they had fun reminiscing (they still knew some of the songs -- but, then again, it's really hard to get them out of your head sometimes).

After a tour of Concordia University's new campus (Dane has been accepted there), we drove out to the Salt Lick for bar-b-que. Oh, just the smell when you're driving up is enough to make you happy! Dax was in rare, amped-up form. Good thing we outnumbered him 5-to-1.

To cap off the day, we drove around and looked at Christmas lights (a tradition for Aunt Kay's birthday -- it's also a tradition for her to play peek-a-boo with Dax so that he laughs, and then suddenly starts crying, but there was no crying this year). We were happy to see that 35th Street has kept up the crazy light displays. Since we figured we'd done enough walking at the Trail of Lights the day before, we just drove 35th Street. But, it was still fun (and much warmer).

At Gymboree

Bubbles!

Waiting patiently for his stamp (on his belly, obviously)

Fired up at the Salt Lick BBQ

Checking out the pit at Salt Lick

One of the houses on 35th Street