We had the best time celebrating Ethan's 8th birthday! After several years of big birthday parties, we decided this year to allow him to pick any place he wanted to go and let him ask a few friends to go with him. Summer birthdays are hard because everyone travels, but thankfully the 3 friends that he asked to go were all in town! Of all of the places he talked about visiting, he finally decided ZooAtlanta. So we started out bright and early on his birthday morning to pick up our friends and spend the day celebrating him!
First stop, Dunkin Donuts for birthday doughnuts!
Then on to the zoo!
These sweet boys were precious and so easy to spend the day with! Unknowingly, I dressed Ethan and Caden in gray t-shirts and James David, Jesse, and Ethan were all dressed in bright yellow. I guess their moms' were concerned that I might lose them ;-)
We took a break to play on the naked mole rat playground, then...
on to the pandas!
Followed by the petting zoo!
And kangaroos
After seeing almost everything at the zoo, we stopped for the train and...
Some more playtime at the larger playground
Before moving on to the carousel...what's the deal with the bunny ears!
While it's not all in pictures, we saw EVERY.SINGLE.EXHIBIT. at the zoo (including the reptiles...eek!!!) and as we left, the boys posed as their favorite zoo animal of the day.
Once we got back to Suwanee, we stopped at Smallcakes so that everyone could pick out a cupcake and we sang "Happy Birthday" to Ethan, then ate all of the yumminess :-)
The boys had worked up quite a thirst by then, so we left Smallcakes after devouring cupcakes and headed to Chick-Fil-A for some cold drinks and some more playtime in their playroom.
Whew! What a full day! We dropped all of the boys off around dinnertime and picked up Daddy for Ethan's birthday dinner. It was his pick, so he picked dinner at Firehouse Subs followed by ice cream at Culver's.
I think 8 is off to a great start!
Happy birthday big boy!!
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