Happy birthday sebastian

It's hard to believe that we are already going home tomorrow, but not nearly as hard to believe that sebastian is already one year old.

We had the perfect day for his birthday, only interrupted by a one hour meltdown to end all meltdowns (either from exhaustion or constipation from eating so much sand, who knows). We first went to the Bacardi tour which I had never been before and was actually kind of cool (especially since it was free). Then we went to lunch at El Jibarito - best damn mofongo in the whole island. Then we went kite flying in El Morro and after unsuccessfully trying with the $2 Dora kite it finally broke and we got a Yoda one for $5 from the street vendor which used the force to kick Dora's ass. So we finally flew a kite and gabi was over the moon. She was so proud to fly a kite herself and then when it was time to go she kept calling out "Yoda, come down!!!". Hilarious.

After that we picked up an ice cream cake from maggie moo's and that's when the meltdown started. It was like the kid's nap had been short circuited or something. So we tried to get him to sleep more and then give him a bath only so that he could undo the bath by rubbing ice cream all over himself. However, it seemed he really had fun yesterday, and I could not help but think his birthday was a study in contrasts with gabi's first birthday production. :) isn't is always that way? The most important thing was spending it with family.

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