Lola’s Birthday

dylan doing the last-minute decorating
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We celebrated Lola’s birthday this past weekend and made some mint chocolate cupcakes (a current favorite for everyone) with chocolate ganache and, of course, Dylan’s sprinkle décor. Here he is decorating them at Lola’s house before returning to his current badge obsession…

Yep. I found his old VeriSign Kid’s Day badge in his closet the other day and placed it on his bookshelf where he discovered it later that same day; he’s sleeping with it attached to his pants as I type! So, after finding it, he had to wear it everywhere…and “badge in” everywhere.

At Lola’s house, he badged into the kitchen area, declaring he had to “swipe it” (like a credit card). He also insisted I get my badge out of my car and that Auntie Christina get her badge, too. Then we were all three badging in here, there, and everywhere.

lovin’ his badge
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After a totally delicious home-made meal of Thai food — vegan pad thai, yellow curry, papaya salad, cucumber salad, rice, and mango with sticky rice, all prepped by Mama Howell (yes, mom insisted on cooking!) — we adjourned to the outdoors where, well, we continued to obsess over badges.

cameron and badge
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Yes, even Cameron got in on all of this badge excitement!

happy bday, mom!
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We hope mom had a nice bday celebration! She’s lookin’ great and feeling great, too…!