Whoo hooo! I love my birthday! So much fun today.

We got up early and went to Birdsfoot to load the van for market and then drove into a rainstorm in town. We didn't have to deal with the rain and flooding in our spot, though, because Dulli set up while Brenden and I went to the Partridge to get breakfast. It did clear up for most of the day and market was quiet and slow but nice. I also went thrift store shopping with my fellow pink haired friend and got awesome pants that zip off into shorts.

Brenden got me Virgil's root beer, chocolate covered pretzels, and organic dark chocolate. Amazing!

Then we went to the P&C and got ingredients for my birthday cake...snickers ice cream pie.

At home we had a few hours and got together a bunch of laundry to take the laundromat and cleaned the apartment. I love a clean apartment.

We went out to dinner at the Asian Buffet with almost all of the Birdsfoot crew and did TEN loads of laundry. It's SO wonderful to have clean sheets and towels and work clothes...I can't describe how happy it makes me. And the Asian Buffet played happy birthday over the sound system in our special party room and gave us an entire cake for free. What nice folks.

Everyone came back to our place and we hung out, had ice cream pie.

I told stories of my birth -

I was a preemie, born almost a month early. I was only 3 lbs 9 oz, so tiny, but I had fully developed organs and only had to stay in the hospital so I could be kept warm in an incubator. My mom was pretty freaked out and didn't want to leave me there. They didn't name me for several days...they couldn't agree on anything. Finally the nurses threatened to put Bertha on my birth certificate and they settled on Nancy Lee. I weighed 4lbs 13oz when I had been there almost 3 weeks but the hospital wouldn't send me home until I was at 5lbs. My mom came to breast feed me and bring some milk she'd pumped. I guess I heard them talking about going home because I stayed up all night, ate all the milk and formula I could and gained the 3oz by morning. They hadn't thought it was possible but I was determined. My grandmother had gone out and bought me a dress. They didn't have premie clothes back then so shopped in the doll clothes and found me a pretty white one. I came home a few days before my original due date and was the sweetest little girl there ever was.

And I turned out so fantastic!

So yay me!

Birthday flowers from the herb garden.