The Kluczinske Family’s Blog

On the morning of her birthday, Vivian woke up to see her birthday ring and birthday crown. For breakfast we had home fries, her favorite, and pancakes.

After breakfast, Curtiss read Vivian a birthday story called “On the Night You Were Born.”

Curtiss had to go to work so Vivian and I decided to visit the playgrounds. First stop was the swing. Vivian absolutely loves the swing. In fact, when I tried to get her out she held on for dear life so I let her swing for five more minutes.

At the other playground, Vivian likes going on these rocking animals. Yeah, they are pretty beat up. After playing, we went home so she could take her late morning nap and I went to cook lunch.

Of course you need pancit on your birthday. That is such a classic Filipino tradition. I’ve heard them referenced as the “long life noodles,” haha.

Eat up, Vivian!

This is the pumpkin apple harvest cake I made for Vivian after looking for healthy cake recipes online. It used a little sugar, but I am not one of those people that thinks giving a little bit of sugar is the equivalent to child abuse. If I handed her a soda, ice cream, and store bought cake then, yes, I think that would be harmful and disgusting!

Obviously, she really did enjoy her cake.

For dinner, we went to this place called Tudari and it was total fail compared to all the other places we tried. Well, okay, its a tie between Tudari skewered food house and Choi Gane or whatever that cooked all of its food in one pan.

We ended up eating Buffalo wings sorta kinda-ish on a stick and some other disgusting thing on a stick. We just stopped by the bakery and another place to pick up more food after.

I have to wait on posting pictures of Vivian’s gifts because they haven’t all arrived and I’d rather have them on one post. I’m also thinking about writing up Vivian’s birth story but we’ll see where that goes.

Loving the past year and the ones to come,
Michelle