Birthday Celebration in Japan!

We thought we were in the clear of having a kid during the baseball season... we were close but not in the clear when your team goes to playoffs! So poor Tessa's birthday celebration gets a little hard when it is still baseball season and even harder when we are in a different country :) So we just decided that this year we would celebrate Tessa's birthday as much as we could... and we did!

We started the birthday celebration this year on October 9th (Japan time). DJ was out of town so Tessa, Brady and I celebrated all day long doing all of Tessa's favorite things. We went and played at the park, collected leaves, and went for a walk. We had a really fun time.






We ended the night singing Happy Birthday with Daddy on Skype and a birthday doughnut!





And opening a few presents that were sent over :)





Yay I'm 2!!!




Then the next day it was Tessa's "real" birthday back at home so we went to the bounce house and out to dinner with the Falkenborgs.







We actually tried to get them to sing Happy Birthday to Tessa but it turns out we needed to have Tessa's ID to prove it was her birthday. I am SERIOUS!!! I don't know what's worse, someone who would lie about their child's 2nd birthday, or that a 2 year old has an ID??? So we went and got a birthday cookie and milk at Starbucks and sang Happy Birthday to Tessa there :)



The next celebration was when Daddy finally got home to party with us. We decorated the house and opened up presents.


(Don't mind the mess... we are packing hoping to get out of here soon!)

And the last celebration we went out to dinner with The Falkenborgs, Taka, Kento, and us! We had a yummy dinner (minus the cow tongue Daddy fed Tessa... gross).
The kids were able to run around and play in the room we had :)




Birthday Cake time!






Happy Birthday Tessa... we love you!



Maybe we will get to celebrate with our friends and family... if we ever get to come home :)