I have always felt a little guilty for her birthday being so close to Christmas, so we make a strong effort to make her birthday special, complete with a party and not just thrown together with Christmas. This year she chose to go to her favorite restaurant, Pizza Ranch, and we had my family along with one of her friends Tucker, whose parents happen to be our good friends as well!
It took Mackenzie up until the moment we had to order the cake to decide what "theme" she wanted for her party. It was between Dora and High School Musical and although I must confess I enjoy a little HSM, I am glad she chose Dora, a little more age appropriate for a 5 yr old. Kate was pretty happy with her choice as well.....Dora and Boots are a hot item at our house!
After dinner we came back to our house and did the traditional birthday party thing.....cake, ice cream and of course the presents!
These are the balloons that Aaron brought to Mackenzie when he came home from work! I was so impressed with his idea.......complete with both of her choices....a Dora AND HSM balloon!
Kate sporting one of Mackenzie's gifts....she also had the "glubs" on to match at one point!
She got so many special things.... HSM things, games, a lot of crafts to do (my favorite was the old pot holder loom and loop set), a jewelry box, calendar board...etc!This is the part where the birthday ends and I start rambling about my child....again mostly for my memory preserving benefit, but if you would like you can either choose to read on or just exit!
I have been meaning to give an update on each of the girls for a while now, and this seems to be an appropriate time to do exactly that! Mackenzie is really enjoying preschool and I think she'll be very ready for Kindergarten next year, I just don't know if I'll be! She is such a good helper around the house and is learning to be a very good big sister. I would have to say her favorite activities are something involving art.....coloring, doing a kit, cutting and glueing, basically anything along that line. Like I mentioned earlier she likes Dora, High School Musical and a few other favorite shows are The Fresh Beat Band and Electric Company. She is still taking naps most days, and I am very thankful for that time during the day to just sit down and well.....do something like this! She loves being outside, playing school or playing "me being her sister and dad being her brother." I'm not really sure what she does when she instructs us of this, but it is about everyday that I hear that phrase. She is a fairly good eater....sometimes just sparadic. Her favorites are fruit, fruit and more fruit along with some Mac n cheese, pizza, hamburger rice casserole....the typical kid foods. Does like raw veggies with dip and if I really need her to eat....Mc D's hamburger with ketchup, mustard and pickle with a soft bun always does the trick! I just try to avoid that if I can!!! The one thing that she is not big on is dessert, maybe a couple bites of ice cream once in a while, but really not a big fan of the cookies, cake..etc. Does not like chocolate, but loves candy! ( just like her mom) She is now pretty much in"big" girls clothes, although I still try and do 5T sometimes, and coordinate the girls, but I think that time is soon coming to an end. She is just getting so tall, but then the next girls size is 6/7 and that is too big!!!
I think the 5's are going to be good for us, she has grown and matured so much in the last couple months and is starting to figure some things out. We feel so honored to be called her parents. I know God is working on her heart and as our prayer has always been we pray that He draws her to Him more and more everyday and that she will make that choice to call Him Lord of her life!
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