Vernon Morris bought her a cake and ice cream and asked a few of us to come and wish her a surprise happy birthday wish at the office today. I purchased paper goods and balloons. Katelyn was surprised and enjoyed the recognition. Thank you Vernon for thinking of our girl.
This afternoon I had a doctor check-up. Claude drove us all in to Lexington and left me to see my doctor. He took Katelyn to Old Navy to check on clothes. They hit a big sale and Katelyn purchased yoga pants for a class she is taking this semester at college. She also picked up some tops and a hoodie zip-up sweatshirt. Everything was on a good sale. Claude felt so good about it he even purchased me a hoodie zip-up sweatshirt.
When I finished at the doctor, I called Claude and he and Katelyn came and picked me up. Then we headed directly to Red Lobster. This was Katelyn's choice for her birthday dinner. It was a good choice.
We started our celebration with a nacho appetizer that had seafood in it. It was delicious. The rolls or biscuits or whatever they are called were soooooo yummy.
Then we all got our entrees. Katelyn wanted to try lobster and crab legs. We assured her whatever she wanted was okay for her special day. She found the perfect combination plate and order that. She had breaded shrimp, shrimp in a butter/garlic sauce, crab legs and a lobster tail.
Katelyn is a methodical eater. She eyed that platter for a long time before she began the eating process. Mind you this was on HUGE platter. Katelyn carefully ate the shrimp in butter/garlic sauce first. She tried the breaded shrimp but was not really fond of it. I shared one of my grilled shrimp and she gave me her last butter/garlic shrimp. Then Katelyn ate her lobster tail. She was really happy with her meal so far but was really very full at this point.
Then she tried to figure out how to eat that lobster. We pointed out the little fork and the cracking implement to help get the meat out of the legs. She picked up one of the legs and had a great surprised look when she found pinchers on the end of the claw.
She was working diligently with the cracker implement and the little fork when our server came to the table. I asked him if he hand any advice for a novice crab eater. He told Katelyn she didn't have to use the cracking implement. He showed her with a crab leg she had already eaten how to hold it and snap it in to by breaking it with her hands. Katelyn gave this a try. She completely broke it in half instead of just breaking it part way so the meat would slide out of the leg. We assured her she had more opportunities to try with the other crab legs still on her plate. She had great fun trying this technique over and over. I happened to look up at one point and she had the crab in her teeth trying to break it with them. I had to laugh out loud. I told her it made me want to come home and see Splash and watch Darryl Hannah eat seafood without taking it out of the shell.
Katelyn totally enjoyed her birthday dinner. We tried to save a bit of our tummy for a trip to Dairy Queen for ice cream. We ordered small cones and/or Blizzards. They made medium size instead. After ice cream we all rolled out to the car and climbed in for the ride home, very full, very, very, full.
Happy 18th Birthday Katelyn!!
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