Birthday Celebration

In the last post, I said that Alisha and I were going up to Apple Hill to celebrate Roscoe's birthday. We started the day at Apple Hill where we watched some white ducks in a pond as 11:49am (the time Roscoe was born) ticked by. They had what looked like feather afros on their heads.

We took a picture of Roscoe around with us all day, so we could take pictures of "him" in the places we went:

We drove to Lake Tahoe for lunch, which we ate on the shore. After we finished, we wrote a letter to Roscoe and attached it to a helium-filled birthday balloon. This was an idea that we got from Sandy (a friend of Roscoe's favorite artist), who lost her own son at age 12. She sent us a helium tank and balloons so that we could send Roscoe a letter every year. She calls it "Letters to Heaven" and as you can see on the facebook page several others have done the same. We thought it was a great idea! Here was the letter we wrote him this year:

After writing the letter in our car, we walked out onto the pier where we got married and after taking some pictures we let go and the balloon lifted into the air. The sky was cloudless, so we watched the yellow balloon until it was a tiny speck that we lost when we looked away. Alisha made this video which gives a good idea of what it was like to be there when we sent him his note. I love my wife.

We traveled back down toward our home, stopping by Apple Hill to get some apple cider and apple juice for the Kaiser NICU nurses.

Before reaching home, we intended to pick up a cupcake to celebrate his birthday, but all of the cupcake places we found were closed. Luckily, the Whole Foods bakery was still open so we got Roscoe this creme and fruit-filled chocolate bowl instead. It was a delicious way to end the day.