Mother's Day

Mom does so many amazing things for our family all the time. Hazel, Turner and I were pretty excited to hear about a day that is just for doing things for her.
Dad secretly told us that we had some special surprises for Mom for Mother's Day, but we didn't tell Mom.  She thought we were just going to be hanging out like any ordinary day. Hazel and I did a great job keeping everything a secret. Our only slip-up came Saturday night when Hazel told Mom we had a surprise for her. But Hazel didn't tell her what the surprise was, so our secret was still safe.

In the morning, Dad got up with all of us so Mom could sleep in. She thought that was the surprise, but that was just the beginning. We were downstairs making beautiful Mother's Day cards for her, and making her breakfast in bed. Hazel made jelly and apple butter toast, I made smoothies, and Dad cut up some fresh strawberries. Turner cheered us on since he's too little to cook.

Mom was super surprised to get a delicious breakfast in bed and all of our cards. Hazel stayed upstairs to eat with her and has decided that she loves breakfast in bed too.

Then we video-called Bubbe to wish her a happy Mother's Day too.

Later in the day we took Mom to Rita's for ice cream.  Yum!

After running a few errands, we took Mom to dinner at Bamboo Bistro. They have a neat outside area where we can run around and enjoy the great weather.  Mom picked up Freebird's for us to eat while Mom and Dad ate Chinese food.

The kids of the owner of Bamboo Bistro were also outside playing and they were close to the same age as Hazel and me. We had so much fun playing with them - chasing each other around, climbing on things, talking, kicking a soccer ball.  Their parents even let us come in the restaurant and get a full tour of the back rooms.  It started getting late, so Dad said we had to go. Our new little friend asked Dad if we could stay and play a little longer and he said it was getting too late for a school night but that we would come back soon.

It was a pretty busy day. Mom said she really loved her Mother's Day.

I had so much fun on Mother's Day that I declared Brother's Day one day last week, and this Saturday was Sister's Day. To celebrate Sister's Day, we made Hazel banana pancakes and mangoes for her own breakfast in bed, went to the frozen banana stand in South Austin for the first time this year (but definitely not the last!) and she chose to go back to Freebird's so we could play with our new friends some more.