Saturday, February 27, 2021

Jurassic Birthday: A Virtual Dinosaur Experience

Despite a minor sound reverberation, the dinosaur experience turned out as well as we’d hoped. Troy was super excited at all of the stuff everywhere, running around the room to look at everything and scream out it’s name, “T-Wex, Waptor, A-Tops, Bumpy, Compy, Lophus, Allosaurus, Diiiinnnnnoooo!” before moving on to the next one. He was so overwhelmed that he didn’t know what to interact with first.

He said hi to the T-Rex decal, patting his old friend on the nose. He hugged the inflatable dinosaurs. He gently touched the brachiosaurus towering above him on his pile of presents. He shook with excitement at the dinosaur wrapping paper and dinosaur-shaped balloons hovering near the ceiling.

I know it was hard for the myriad of family and friends on camera to capture or feel the complete rapture of Troy as he danced around the room. But I’m glad that they were gracious enough to try. We finally were able to corral Troy away from the inflatable dinosaurs long enough to open presents, and Troy joyously called out, “Dino!” with every new unveiling of something dinosaur-related.

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