this morning i woke up to "happy birthday" in both english and chinese.
more excitingly, i unwrapped the one toy that had captured my attention on a very purposeful recent visit to the toy store - a microwave oven that lights up and beeps and comes with an assortment of fabulous plastic foods!
because i haven't demonstrated as clear preferences for things like restaurants as i had for this microwave toy, my parents let toby pick where we'd celebrate my birthday. he chose 'all aboard diner,' where our food, including complimentary birthday cupcake, arrived on a choo choo and the wait staff, dressed like train conductors, sang me an unusual version of 'happy birthday.' (mom recently learned that the version we all know and love is actually subject to royalties, if you can believe that?!)
if there's one thing i do well, it's open my mouth for food! ;-p
(there would have been a great photo of me with cupcake all over my face, except that the camera was in video, not photo, mode and mom, not realizing, shot the whole thing sideways - oops!)
at the front of this all around great restaurant there's one of those train displays where pushing buttons makes things spin, turn and go.
anyhow, mom is somewhat obsessed with reflections, so instead of taking pictures of the train display, she took pictures of my 'ge ge bee' (big brother toby)...
...and of me.
(mom has always been a sucker for a cute face!)
all in all, it was a pretty nice 3rd birthday (first celebrated here in the U.S.)!
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