So! Thursday was my 34th birthday.
Yeah....
And instead of having a nice normal day like I was supposed to I decided you know what? Screw reason! Screw logic! Screw naptime! It's my birthday and it's the perfect spring day out so we're going somewhere fun! So I went straight from the preschool pickup line to my favorite Cleveland Spring Event:
Big Spring at the Cleveland Botanical Garden.
We had a little time to kill before meeting our friends there so we took a little walk around Wade Oval:
Such a beautiful day!
The kids were thrilled to be out and about:
And Big Spring is just so much fun:
We mainly just let the kids play in the outdoor garden pretending to plant things and water things and dig in the sand and dirt:
So much fun!
Although the little guy was not happy I wouldn't let him army crawl all over the place:
So he hung out on some logs for awhile:
I'm so glad that I decided to take them.
Even if they were asleep before we were on the shoreway:
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| 3 kids asleep at the same time! This NEVER happens at home. |
I really needed that fun adventure. 34 was a birthday that for some reason really got to me. The number just seems a lot older than what I feel. Plus 33 had a whole bunch of really neat numbers associated with. It's multiple of 11 - my lucky number, I had my 3rd kid at 33, my 9th anniversary was on the 9th, etc. 34 doesn't have any pluses other than that it's a year older. Blah.
On the other hand, though. 33 was easily the toughest year. I was either super pregnant with 2 little ones to chase or was home with 3 children under 4. Neither of which is an experience I have any desire to repeat OMG. Just making it to 34 is monumental.
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| Pictured: Way more small children than I have hands for. |
But I think it has more to do with life changes and less about the actual number.... haven't had one bother me
since 28. In retrospect that's hilarious - I thought 28 was old! But between 28 and 29 I got pregnant, had a baby, and quit the job that I thought was going to be my long-term career. So yeah... I had a right to feel like things were shifting. And I feel that way now. We've been in this cycle of pregnancy / newborn / baby since 2008. That's as long as it took me to get a masters degree! I can barely even picture a world without any of that baby insanity. But this is the year that we become the parents of school aged children. Pretty seismic shift in priorities/lifestyle.
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| Probably my last birthday feeding a baby a bottle. Next year this guy will be almost 2. |
I'm excited for it. We have a whole lot of really fun years ahead with this crew. 34 is just the beginning. I think it's going to be a good year.
Disclaimer: Tickets were provided to Big Spring. All opinions and stress over getting older are my own.
