Valentine's Day with the dinosaurs............

Mrs. Lime and I celebrated an early Valentine's Day last night. We did what any other couple would do that has a one year old child.......we went to a restaurant that our baby would enjoy!

We went to a place called T-Rex. It's similar to a Rainforest Café, except the place is full of animated dinosaurs. From the moment we sat down, Kali 1.0 was in awe. She stared for minutes at a time at the animated dinosaurs, octopus, squid, and live fish tank behind the bar. I'm not sure what she was thinking, but she was totally distracted and barely knew we were sitting at the table with her outside of the few times we fed her some food.

During dinner, there were several times were the roars of the dinosaurs were interrupted by the waiters clapping for the birthday song. There were evidently a lot of birthdays being celebrated, because we heard clapping every 5-10 minutes. The funny part was that every time the clapping began, Kali would whip her head around and listen to the clapping. After a few seconds of listening, she'd start giggling and bouncing in her seat. She'd also start clapping along with the waiters. Had you asked her right on the spot, she would have likely told you that it was the most fun she'd ever had.

The next time the waiter came over to the table, we mentioned to him that Kali was in the hospital on her birthday, so we were wondering if they could sing 'Happy Birthday' to her. He was happy to do so.

I could see over in the kitchen that they were organizing another birthday posse, likely headed our way. They started clapping and Kali got excited again. But when the birthday posse showed up at our table, she stopped clapping and just grinned at all the servers. She was caught off guard that they were headed for our table. She got a couple of tickles from the servers who noted "she's so cute!". She obviously didn't mind the attention at all.

Kali got a free ice cream sundae for her birthday. I gave her a small bite and she gave a bitter look, mostly due to the cold nature of the ice cream. I was going to stop as it looked like she didn't like it, but she reached out for my arm when I set the spoon down. That usually means she wants more. She ended up eating around 8 small spoonfuls of ice cream before she said she was done. She then went back to staring at fish and dinosaurs.

A birthday and a Valentine's dinner all wrapped up into one. What more could you ask for?