I am officially FOUR years old! Can you believe it? Mom and dad can't, either. On Thursday night when mom put me to bed, I reminded her that it was my last bedtime as a three year old. Completely melted her heart. I was really excited and had a hard time falling asleep. My birthday was on Friday and I got to take some Rice Krispie treats to school to share with my friends and teachers - I was SO excited about it! I got to wear a fancy dress and sparkly dress shoes to school - mom doesn't usually let me do that because of all of the running around we do, but she said it was a special day so it was ok.
I opened my gifts from mom and dad after school and before dinner. I got some really cool things including a beginning electronic circuit set, some new blocks, a new lego set, the Snow White movie, and my very own iPod!!! Three guesses what my favorite was. The iPod had all of my favorite apps on it and I was excited to have one of my very own.
We went out for sushi for dinner and I had a GREAT dinner. I had a bowl of Miso soup, split a plate of edamame with mom, had a few pieces of mom and dad's sushi AND had my own two sushi rolls. Yum. I told mom we'd do a sushi dinner for my birthday and Dogfish for her birthday - she laughed :) After dinner, the waitress brought us 3 cookies and a lollipop. Mom let me have her cookie, so I got to have TWO cookies and a lollipop in the car on the way home. Talk about a special treat :)
We read a very special book at bedtime on Friday. Grammy and Grampy Clements wrote a children's book called "The Runaway Hanky." We all sat in my bed and daddy read it to me. What a special book - I even got the very FIRST copy of the book! When I opened it, I saw Grammy and Grampy's picture on the back and asked mom and dad if they were the authors. When they said yes, I was really excited. I always ask mom about the authors of books, so it was really cool to see my own grandparents on the book!
I slept well Friday night - I was probably exhausted and crashing from all of the sugar. I was also pretty excited about my birthday party on Saturday. A lot of friends who I haven't seen in a while were there, so that was really fun! I got up pretty early on Saturday and helped mom get stuff together. Dad had to run all the errands (cake pick up, grocery shopping, etc.) since mom's still on crutches and can't shop too well. Grandma, Grandpa, Great Grandma, and Great Grandpa got to our house around lunch time, so I was excited to spend some time with them. I got to open their gifts, play, and spend time with them before my party. They stayed at the house and rested when we went to the Gym for the party.
I had a lot of fun at my party. My favorite part (aside from the cake) was the "snowball" fight with daddy. The pictures aren't great, but check out this series:
Getting ready to start the fight...
Jumping over the slide...
Daddy went down!
Nice recovery, dad!
And after all the gym fun, my absolute favorite part - the chocolate princess cake!
I'm so excited to be four!!!
