THE ADVENTURES OF NICO AND NATALEE: Birthday Weekend in SeaWorld!!!!

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Birthday Weekend in SeaWorld!!!!

For over a year Daddy and I have been promising Nico we would be celebrating his 4th birthday somewhere special. For quite sometime we had hoped the "some where special" would be Disney World, but with a wedding to pay for and other possibilities coming up in the near future, we decided that forking over our entire life savings to hit up Disney World for a couple days might not be the best of ideas. So we asked our selves, "what's the best alternative?" Why, SeaWorld of course! Daddy and I had took Nico when he had just turned 2 years old, but this time he knew the fun we were about to have and had more of understanding and appreciation for it! This was also Natalee's first time to SeaWorld, and to top it off, Gigi was meeting us in San Antonio for the weekend.

This was such a special weekend for us and we started our SeaWorld birthday experience off with a Sesame Street Brunch! Nico had no idea what was about to happen and when all of those Sesame Street friends came through the doors, his jaw dropped and a huge smile came across his face! Nico loved seeing each of the characters and told them all that it was his birthday, that he was 4 years old now and received big birthday hugs from them all! Even Natalee was taken aback by Abbey, Cookie Monster, Zoey and Elmo (just to name a few)! After the breakfast we continued with the Sesame Street theme and saw a couple of shows, and let Nico doing some playing around in the Bay of Play area. Later we watched the Shamu's Christmas show that was themed about miracles, which brought a few tears to mine and Gigi'e eyes...I mean we were sitting in between two of our very own miracles, one of which we were there to celebrate!

After leaving SeaWorld, we stopped for some dinner where a surprise birthday cake was brought out to Nico! His eyes were huge as he got to blow out the candles. The next morning which was Nico's actual birthday, Nico was surprised to find the living area of the hotel room decorated in some Toy Story streamers and birthday party hats waiting to be used. Daddy made birthday chocolate chip pancakes for the little man which he added a few candles to the pancakes and we then got to sing Happy Birthday to the newly 4 year old. Finally, he then was able to open his presents before we all went our separate ways.

It was a day full of mixed emotions for me....my baby boy turned 4, but I had to leave him and his baby sister to travel down to my dad's to visit my grandma. She had fallen a few days before our trip, fractured her hip and was in the hospital. I felt led to go see her and help my dad was had the burden of taking care of her on his shoulders. So Nico and Natalee went east to Houston, Ed went north back to Fort Worth and I headed south the the RGV. We did so much celebrating for Nico's birthday from the pirate birthday party to SeaWorld, so I tried my best not to feel too guilty, but as a mom, it was certainly hard to let that go.