Happy Hanoi Birthday Malcolm!

As far as birthdays go, I think Malcolm had a pretty amazing first one.

As Randy and I sat on the beach in Halong Bay watching Adam play in the sand and Malcolm took a nap on me after exploring a cave on a deserted island with limestone cliffs all around, I turned to Randy and said that I wasn’t sure Malcolm could top this. He sort of hit his birthday peak at one. This was a birthday people dream of. I was feeling a little bad putting all this pressure on him to always have the sort of birthday that takes my breath away. But I take it back. I think Malcolm can do it. I’m going challenge Malcolm to make every birthday as special as this one.

We woke up in our little cabin in the boat and sang Malcolm a couple rounds of happy birthday.

Then we had a yummy breakfast and headed out on a little boat to a little deserted island. Adam of course wanted to sit with his adopted family and wanted to wear the pink life vest chosen by his girlfriend the day before.

The boat docked on a little deserted island and we hiked up a little staircase to a cave. In theme with the whole trip, Adam wanted to climb the staircase “by myseeeeelf”.

Another picture of the four of us that included a bride and an ergo, have you guys had enough of these yet?

Adam and his girlfriend snuck in some PDA in the cave.

When we got back on the boat there was a mini celebration for Malcolm. Lack of cake and windy boat weather resulted in a fruit platter/lantern birthday cake on the deck of the dragon boat. Maybe Malcolm was expecting chocolate?

Big brother came to help blow out the candle and saved the day.

Some cuddles from daddy and some fruit made things all better.

We headed back in the car and three short hours later we were home. Luckily, the drive back was during both boys naps and we had mostly snores. We got back to our beloved Sofitel and smelled some flowers they left for Malcolm’s birthday. Ok, maybe we tried to do more than eat them but hey, it’s the guys birthday, cut him some slack.

We got changed and headed down for a real birthday celebrations. The Ali’s don’t celebrate birthdays with fruit and lanterns 🙂

The Sofitel had an amazing pool side bar so we ordered the most chocolaty, yummiest cake they have and two champagnes for mommy and daddy to celebrate a wonderful year with our little peanut.