Officially FOUR!

It’s hard for me to wrap my brain around it, but our baby girl is now officially four! She has been saying for weeks that she is “almost four” but now it’s usually something like “I don’t have to, because I’m four.”

This little girl is sassy, but sweet and cuddly. She is very opinionated about certain things (clothes in particular) but is so willing to share with others. {She got 2 birthday cards in the mail one day last week for her birthday. They each had a $5 bill in them. When she opened the second one she immediately gave it to her sister and insisted that she have one of them since she got two. She will steal your heart in a second. She gets VERY upset when her Daddy gets on to her or tells her no, but as much as she is a Daddy’s girl she loves her Momma too. She is not afraid of too many things except Chuck E Cheese and the Chick Fil A cow. She is not afraid to get dirty and loves to rock short and a T shirt, but is very girly too. I love this girl to pieces and I’m so proud to be her Momma.

This year I decided to keep her birthday party low key. I tend to go overboard on birthday parties for my kids, but every few years I throw in an easy, simple birthday party. Since we now have so many of our family living here I thought we’d celebrate with them and 2 of her best girlfriends. We had gone bowling this summer and we had such a great time that I thought it would be a fun way to celebrate Kate’s 4th birthday.

We had lots of fun! We played boys vs. girls vs. kids and then ate cake! (The best part of any birthday party, right?) I let Kate pick out her own birthday cake this year. We flipped through pages and pages of the cake catalog at the grocery store for about 30 minutes and then finally settled on this one:

After the lady wrote out the order, got all of the details Kate looks at me and says “No, I want the Ariel one.” You see who won that battle right?!?!? In the end, she was happy though!

Here are a few of my favorite shots from the day:

A girl and her girlfriends……..priceless!

Me and my girl

Then on her actual birthday we started the day with Mickey Mouse pancakes! Notice she is already dressed up and it’s only breakfast time?!?! She changes clothes about 3 times a day on average!

Then we headed to our traditional birthday celebration spot…….CHUCK E CHEESE! Remember when I said before that she isn’t afraid of much………….except Chuck E? Well……………

This girl not only gave Chuck E a high five, but she stood beside him and took her picture with him! She said that because she was four now she wasn’t afraid of him anymore. You could tell she was still terrified but she was determined to not be afraid anymore. I was so incredibly proud of her. True story: One time my parents took her for dinner at Chick Fil A and when they walked up to the door she saw the cow inside. She ran into my Dad’s arms and they ate dinner at McDonalds.

We survived another birthday &I’m a little sad my girls are getting so big, but I sure do love them. Thankful for all of my blessing!