Charlie's Fourth Birthday

Charlie's birthday has come and gone without a blog post to mark its passing, but here are a few highlight photos (and a promise to TRY to do better about keeping this blog up-to-date).

Marin took Charlie to the Santa Barbara Zoo for his birthday with his friend Ava and his cousin Cooper. Marin made mini-cupcakes which she frosted and sprinkled while she was at the zoo (sorry there are no photos--they were eaten as fast as they were frosted and sprinkled).



We've now been about a dozen zoos across America, and they all have a tortoise statue, and Charlie always rides the turtle statue. Show him the zoo with the live Galapagos Tortoise to ride, and he'll be really impressed.

This is Ava, Charlie, and Cooper looking at the flamingos. Charlie is demonstrating his signature ear-grabbing pose.

Marin made a cake with the left-over cupcake batter and frosting. When she came back to cut it up after dinner, she discovered that Charlie had secretly eaten most of the frosting off the top earlier in the afternoon (again, before she could get a picture). It still tasted good.


Happy birthday, Charlie-Bean!