The day started off just right with a breakfast fit for a princess.
That's right, those are pink pancakes you see on the plate.
Needless to say, she was really excited about the breakfast surprise. Zach wasn't so sure about them at first, but once we convinced him to try it and see that they didn't taste any different, he thought the pink pancakes were very cool. In fact, he's already put in his request for green crepes for his birthday!
Unfortunately, it snowed all day, so there wasn't much else we did that afternoon other than decorate the house and get it ready for the family party that evening (I completely forgot to get a picture of the decorations - pregnancy brain is hitting me hard this time around!).
Once everyone made it to the house (some even traveled 2 1/2 hours for a normal 1 hour trip to get here), we had dinner, then opened some presents.
Hailey was absolutely thrilled with everything she got.
And here she is with all of her presents - quite a haul!
The large item in the brown box is a dollhouse. It was from Jeremiah and I and we were very lax and completely forgot to put it together before her birthday, so she got it in the box. She wasn't very excited about it since she couldn't tell what it was. So here's a picture of it all put together the next morning and set up in her room. It turned out even more cute than I imagined!
Here's the birthday girl with her birthday crown on - all smiles of course!
And here's the "cake" I made for her. She was very determined that she wanted cupcakes this year, so we did sort of a pseudo-cake make out of cupcakes pushed together. Not nearly as cute as I've seen in other examples, but she was thrilled, so I considered it a success.
And here's the big girl blowing out her candles. Seems like not too long ago she had to have help blowing them out and now she's big enough to do it all by herself.
Yep, it was good birthday. In fact, she made my day later that night as I was tucking her into bed. She told it me it was the best birthday ever! Sure, she probably doesn't even remember the last 3 birthdays, but as a Mom, there's nothing that makes you happier than realizing your child was in heaven and couldn't have imagined anything better.
Happy Birthday Hailey-Bug! We can't believe how fast you're growing! We sure love you to pieces!
2 comments:
What a fun birthday and a darling girl! I can't believe she's only four--for some reason I think of her as a lot older than my girls. I guess one year makes a big difference, though, when they're this young!
Happy Birthday to Hailey! Glad to see it was a success :)
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