Nathan's Birthday Part 3

This isn't his birthday cake but .... heck yeah!!!

If you haven't checked out  PART ONE at the Zoo or PART TWO at the Zoo, you totally should!!

When Nathan sees the Dead Fleet (decommissioned Aircraft Carriers) ... he knows we are almost home.  It's a huge thing for him.  The Tacoma Narrows means we are about half way home when we are coming home from Seattle, and the Dead Fleet means we are about 10 minutes (or less) from home.  

My little Buggy turned EIGHT today.  I cannot believe he's 8.   We got home, he came inside, threw off his shoes, crawled into his bed, and promptly (and I mean promptly) fell asleep.  He was WORN out!  And pretty unhappy.

A couple of things happened.

#1:  When we were at the Polar Bear exhibit - Nathan was with me, but he was sticking by Kaedyn all day.  They were both in and out of the stroller.  Well - I was trying to get us through the rest of the zoo - we were running out of time and my heart rate was crazy at that point from the pain I was in.  DB made me take a turn in the wheelchair...  PLUS Noah was hurting and I could tell.  Anyway I was worried about Kale getting in to see the Polar Bear because I knew he really wanted to see them so - I knew Cal left with the stroller ....  what I didn't know was that he ONLY had Kaedyn with him, and not Nate.  So we get up by Cal and I noticed Kaedyn but not Nathan - I yelled at him "Where is Nate!?!?!?!"  He goes "I thought he was with you!"  OMG - instant panic here!!!   Don't lose the Autistic Wonder!!!  Kale came up behind us, I turn and yell "You got Nate?"  He goes "No, I thought Cal had him" .... yeah, you and me both!  So Kale runs to one entrance and I run to the other ... and as I get to the entrance I'm going to I see him - THANK YOU RED SHIRT! - and I yeah "Nathan!" and he's turning to run back inside the Polar Bear exhibit ...  he turns and he looks at me, and he says "Momma!"  and I scooped him up and carried him up the hill to everyone.   He didn't seem any worse for the wear but I sure was.

#2:  My phone died so I had to use DB's phone for pictures.  So I had gone back down to the Red Wolf exhibit because I noticed they had woken up as soon as we walked away, so I wanted to try to grab some more pictures of them up and about.  I ran back down there and took some more pictures, and I headed up the hill (off the path) ...  I got up there just after Shila and Clairah got up to the Kid Zone and I started making my rounds for photos.  I had turned around at one point when I was in the Meerkat enclosure and seen Kale, but he must not have seen me.  So I made my way around the first area, taking my time doing pictures.... and I got to the second half of the area and found my family all sitting there.  Nathan was sitting in the stroller looking really upset.  I looked at DB and he goes "Nathan wants to leave now," look at him sideways.  "He got left over on the other side of the play area and he freaked out looking for his family and couldn't find anyone" (never mind the fact that I was over there the whole time - so he must not have been LOUDLY freaking out) ...  Anyway ... he was clearly upset and just done.  He didn't even want to play and that's part of his favorite part.  So I went off to find the others, take some more pictures, noticed the petting zoo was closed.

3#: On the way home, the Littles (including Claire) were sleeping.  Nathan woke up SCREAMING and grabbing his leg and I noticed it was all twisted weird at that point.  He was having a major leg cramp.  He was upset for awhile but we were almost home and he fell back to sleep.

SO yeah, he came in and crashed.

Clairah and Jaxson

I think I might have gotten a little burned.  Irish Girl real world problems.  Burning with sunscreen on.

Here is his cake.  His cake we didn't get to blow candles out sing to him because he literally crashed and slept and is still sleeping and will probably sleep through the night and wake up early.  The Zoo wore him out!

And that was my baby's 8th Birthday ...