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Photography By Charise: "Happy Birthday little dada"

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

"Happy Birthday little dada"

My poor husband has been working long hours and very stressful days these past few weeks as his store awaits their corporate audit team. He has been leaving every morning at 5am and gets home around 5pm only to take a 45 min conference call to prep for the next day. Well, today is his birthday, so to brighten his day a little I had our daughter call him to wish him a happy birthday as soon as she woke up. "Hello?" he answered in a flustered voice, "Happy Birthday dada" she said, "lets sing!" And she started to sing happy birthday to him. The two of them sing happy birthday all the time, but its always "happy birthday little Shayna, happy birthday too you" But today she sang "happy birthday little dada, happy birthday to you" It was so sweet, it really just melted my heart. I could tell immediately by the tone of his voice that this one little phone call really made his day. She was so excited that it was daddy's birthday. She anxiously awaited his arrival home from work, knowing she had helped wrap his present in the ducky bag she insisted we used and because there was cake with "candles to blow". As soon as he walked in the door, she ran to him saying "happy birthday, happy birthday, dada!" Well it wasn't too long before it was time for cake. She was just tickled beyond belief that while daddy was in the shower we were going to get the cake ready and surprise him. So as I set it on the island she tells me...."I have an idea", well as you can imagine, any 2 year old that has an idea when there is a cake in front of them...its probably not an idea that is in the best interest of the cake.





The final project of her "idea"


But, shhhh, here comes daddy, lets surprise him......"ta'da daddy"


Singing...."Happy Birthday Little Dada"


"Blowin candles"