Going from Christmas to birthday in the pictures shows a connection in the gifts between the two. The Unfinished Furniture store was getting a lot of business from us. Well, maybe not a lot, but all the business we had available.
The big gift of the birthday was a toddler bed. Like the toy chest for Christmas, it was a piece of unfinished furniture that we stained. Unlike the toy chest, which we still have, once both kids and their cousins outgrew it, we didn’t have a reason to keep it, and still managed to store it away in our basement. I think we finally gave it away on the recycling web group last summer (or was it the summer before that), when I was doing my neatening up of the basement and trying to get rid of all the things we had. I was a little sad to let it go, but the pictures here cheer me with happy memories, and it is much better being used than sitting in our basement waiting decades for another user.
Another big gift was a tricycle. That got a lot of use over the years as well, between her, her sibling and the cousins. Somewhere along the way it got enough wear to actually split in two along the main weld that held the front and back sections together. It stayed in a junk pile in our basement for years after that. In fact, we didn’t get rid of it until earlier this month, when we finally schedule a large trash pickup with the city for a broken sofa and broken chairs and etc.
I cannot comment on a birthday without pictures of the cake either. Apparently no really messy pictures, like the first birthday.
At The Rainbow 