Last year Anni and I took the day off on Elise's birthday and the three of us headed to the Children's Museum in St. Paul, as a way to celebrate outside of the traditional birthday party. It was a good time and the start of a tradition -- if two years in a row counts as tradition.
This year, Elise's birthday party was on a Saturday, her actual birthday the following Sunday. We decided to take Elise swimming on her birthday. She loves water -- lakes, bath tubs, spray bottles -- so after breakfast Sunday we hustled over to the Maplewood Community Center, which has an indoor pool with an area for little kids, a water slide, etc. Turns out we had the pool to ourselves for most of the visit. Elise had a blast marching around in the wading pool and splashing and generally being a kid in water. We discovered something new to do in the winter and when the weather's crummy.
After 18 cannonballs and one wild game of Marco Polo, we toweled off and headed for lunch at one of our favorite kid-friendly-yet-not-obnoxious restaurants, Punch Pizza. Elise loves the pizza and so do we.
It was an enjoyable way to spend her birthday.
What can you say other than that the lady loves her Neopolitan pizza with a side of peas.
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