Well, it happened: our littlest turned 4. Her bday was on a Saturday and her party was on Sunday and her school bday circle was on Monday, so it was a weekend of much celebrating!
On her actual bday, we didn’t have much planned, aside from bday party prep. But, we wanted to mark the day as special, so we made a batch of some vanilla agave cupcakes and tried to decorate ’em up with a Minnie-Mouse theme!
As is usually the case these days, Dylan was on the computer playing Minecraft, but the girls peeled themselves away from their other activities to help out with the baking and decorating! In the end, bday gal gave the cupcakes a big thumbs-up!
Cameron gave them a thumbs-up, too!
And, Dylan actually smiled for me (he is now in the habit of trying to hide from the camera)….
We think Chloe had a pretty good day, but she was tired. I wish I knew what the little thing was thinking here!
We also had a nice celebratory lunch at Takara and, still, poor little thing was sooo tired! I actually can’t remember what we did the night before…she must have stayed up late, though!!!
The next day, we had her party at SCCMOD (her choice!). In keeping with the Minnie love, we had the cake folks do some Minnie Mouse design on one of her cakes.
The other cake was equally tasty(minnie was a chocolate almond cake and this one was a vanilla-orange one) and nice-looking!
In total, we had 24 kiddie guests celebrating with her, many of them from the preschool and including a couple of the teachers who came with their own 4-year olds!
And, finally, on Monday, she had her bday circle. She looked so timid!
Chloe loved her bday banner (drawn by Stacy, the owner’s daughter-in-law).
It is hard to believe that Chloe is so grown up now! She is truly a joy–she has such a great sense of humor and she has such an expressive personality. Reading stories together are so much fun. She pays attention to the facial expressions in the books and she provides her own commentary on what they’re thinking.
Like Cameron, she’s very independent: she likes trying to do things herself. And, I love watching her play. Right now, she is really into playing with her Mickey and Minnie Mouse stuffed animals. She tucks them into the doll bunk bed almost every night and it’s always entertaining to her her story arcs (many of which involve Castle of Illusion-inspired evil)!
As I’ve mentioned in some previous posts, Chloe is also starting to write her name (she often wants to practice at home) and draw little stick figures. She’s also gotten pretty good with number recognition (especially, 1, 3, 6, 7, 9…). We are looking forward to what our next year together will bring!
