Mina is 4!

Yesterday Mina turned 4 years old! We celebrated with a birthday party at our home. We had Red's Roving Wildlife come with their animals to entertain the kids. I reckon the adults were also entertained by the wildlife (if not more so)! And the biggest shock of all...Brian made Mina's cake! An owl cupcake cake (a mom, dad, & baby)- he did a great job!

Ranger Red teaching us about the tawny frogmouth (who said birthday parties can't be educational?!)

Kaiya cuddling with Pamela the Python. Notice the lazy dingo in the background!

This pic was taken right before Pamela started slithering up Emiko's back...

Mina held this turtle for a long time- it was hard for her to give it up.

A bobtail skink. We had these living in our yard in our last house...but this one was much more docile. The one in our backyard hissed at us whenever we got too close.

A blue-tongued lizard!

Just about ready to blow out the candles.

We love our Mina girl! We always know when she wakes up because we can hear her singing from the toilet as she's taking care of business (it's the first thing she does every morning)...her repetoire varies from primary songs to 80's hair bands to One Direction! And she is non-stop crazy until she falls asleep at night (and yes, she is often singing as she falls asleep). But we'll keep her...

Happy birthday Mina!