Happy Half Birthday Orin!

Today was Orin's Half-a-Year-Since-Birth-Day!!!

-cue cheesy music, confetti rain, balloons-

To celebrate, we headed off to the coast for a day of fishing.

Orin loves fishing.

I think.

We didn't catch any fish,

but we weren't too worried about it because chocolate

makes a better birthday treat than salmon any day.

When we got home

I whipped up a brownie cake and we all put on our birthday

hats and sang to Orin.

What we didn't realize was that we had made a terrible mistake...

only the birthday boy is supposed to wear a birthday hat,

we just didn't know any better.

Luckily, Orin fixed the problem.

Once Orin had reclaimed his rightful place in the spotlight

it was time for some gifts.

A mysterious package had arrived in the mail that day.

It was addressed to Orin Zawicki,

but nobody knew anything else about it.

Further inspection was in order.

At first, Orin wasn't sure what to do with the package,

So he fell back on his number one strategy for 

investigating new objects: He stuck in in his mouth.

When that didn't work (not very tasty), we decided to help him out.

After tearing open the package we found:

A rescued sea turtle from the Turtle Hospital's

rescue, rehabilitate, and release program!

It had been sent directly from Florida

by Ori's Grandma and was still salty and fresh from the ocean.

Yummy birthday turtle!

Happy half birthday Orin!

 I can't believe it has been

6 months already...

Time goes by too fast.