Today is my daughter's fifth birthday! It is kind of bittersweet! She is five and she is our youngest and last child because... Well... just because! Being in Florida for her birthday was a new experience for all of us and she is loving it thus far! Spending time with our friends and having a quick little present opening ceremony for her to open gifts, such fun!

Addison is and always has been a very independent individual, to the point where Sarah and I call her our little CEO. She runs her life and makes certain her brothers are in line. Addison has definitely integrated herself into our lives as our little enforcer and we love every minute of it. That being said she sometimes is a little snobby! LoL! Really, but we did it to ourselves, honestly, we would probably do it again if given the choice; just try to get her to eat different foods!

Being that we are in Florida for her birthday brought on a new set of complications that we did not forsee! Giving her dinner from whatever that she wanted. But since we went to Fort Meyers Beach there were plenty of options - she wanted Mac 'n Cheese and ice cream from Dairy Queen. She did get both, just different places! It was fun. Got some great stock photos for use at a later date for different websites and different images. (Definitely going to keep the EXIF data on these photos...) I digress.

We ended up leaving the island to go back to Cape Coral and ended up eating at a place called Rib City - you know people in America often forget that Florida is in the South and that South Southern BBQ is better than any other place in the world. I don't know why, it just is what it is... Addison... I mean... I got her Mac 'n Cheese... I mean... She was full from her DQ. But holy crap everything was sooooo good at that restaurant. Everywhere we went down here was a culinary experience and I may end up blogging just about the food that we got at a later date, but this blog is about my daughter!

Once back to the condo, we started to settle in and then there were cupcakes, and Addison was elated. Cupcakes, ice cream, Mac 'n Cheese, and more ice cream - this time with M&M's®! And finally, bedtime where she got to pick the movie! 

That leads us to here and now. And that means bedtime for me! Flight back to Indiana tomorrow. The kids will be bummed that we don't get Jax back till Saturday morning, but I will be making certain that first thing Saturday we get him, but this has been an awesome vacation, looking forward to Florida again, looking forward to many more birthday's for Addison, but maybe next time it will be at home for her birthday so she can have her friends over. I don't know, we'll see.

Until next time:

PEACE