Ivy turned 4 on January 19, 2019. Her birthday fell on a Saturday this year and she thought it was great to have everyone home on her special day. I helped her decide what she wanted for each of her meals throughout the day. For breakfast we settled on purple crepes. She is not a big breakfast eater but she will always eat crepes. We also had buttermilk syrup, blueberries, bananas, and whipped cream. Lucky girl-she even got a sit-down breakfast with the whole family with is a rare event.
She did not want a scavenger hunt for her gifts so after breakfast we gathered in the living room to watch her open presents. Stockton and Brynn had spent some time setting up the princess castle and all her princesses on the TV stand for a birthday display...I love seeing the how excited they get for each others' birthdays.
For her birthday she got a Belle dinner play set, Beast doll, and water beads. She saw the first two things at the Disney store several months ago and hasn't stopped talking about them. She has absolutely no need for more toys but what do you do, she only turns 4 once. The water beads were an extra and my kids played with them all day. They came with cute little tweezers and some scooper things which made them even more fun. She also got a few treats, including gum. Remember how she got gum in her hair last August when we went camping and I banned her from gum until she turned 4? You better believe that she didn't forget and all week leading up to her birthday she would ask me "Mom, have you bought the gum for my birthday yet?" Not much gets past her!
We had a relax day at home. The kids played for several hours with the water beads. They made up some game with them. We probably watched Beauty and the Beast because that is her favorite movie at the moment. For lunch she requested grilled cheese and I surprised her with Cheetos. We never have chips at home so that made it a little more special to her. Kids are so easy to please.
April was sick but Gene and Brett came up for a couple of hours in the afternoon. They gave her her birthday dolls (baby-4), a Hairdorables doll, and the Enchanted Forest game. They stayed for dinner. Ivy didn't request anything (ramen noodles don't count) so I made a baked spaghetti that always goes over well. She had three helpings so I would say she approved of her birthday dinner!
It's hard finding fun things to do when there is a birthday in January. It's pretty much the worst month to have a birthday. But we did manage to have fun. Justin knows the guy who is in charge of the Ice Castles up here. We have never been because it's ridiculously expensive (it would have cost us $100 for about an hour spent there) but he told Justin this year to give him a call and he would get us in for free-so Justin did and he did! Ivy was so excited to go see Elsa's ice castle and was convinced that Elsa had actually made it. It was recommended to go at night so we made our reservation for 7. It was crazy crowded! We had to ride a shuttle from the parking lot just to get over there. But it wasn't too bad...they do try to manage the crowds by having reservations and only letting so many stand-by's in. The crowd did not bother the kids and they were in awe of all the neat things to see. It was pretty incredible. Justin's friend found us and gave us a VIP treatment by walking us to the front of the very long slide line. We felt a little guilty but partly relieved that we didn't have to wait in the line-I'm sure it would have been at least a 30 minute wait. We found some smaller slides later that didn't have a wait so the kids got to do those more than once. It sure was a magical place and such a fun night. It tuckered Ivy right out and she took a little nap on the drive home.
She didn't stay asleep because we still had to do birthday cake! She requested a princess castle cake and I did my best. She was very pleased and that's what matters. She wanted pink frosting and pink ice cream (strawberry). She decorated with her princesses.
The last bit of celebrating happened on Monday when my parents came to see her. They had been at the cabin for the long weekend and drove over in a snow storm. They didn't stay long because of the weather but they stayed long enough to spoil her with new clothes, a Calico Critter bus, and a kitty family.
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