We decided to do Crannie's family birthday weekend early, since Dan is working on the 11th. We'll probably take her and Beebster to Chuck E Cheese (their most favorite birthday destination) on her actual birthday, and she is anxious for it to be the 11th already! Although she has told me repeatedly, that 4 is the maximum age that she would like to achieve. She does not want anything to do with turning 5 next year. Neither do I!
Her personal request for her birthday was to to go to Hershey and Chocolate World. She thought it was the coolest thing that Beebster went to Sesame for her birthday and also wanted to do that, but I explained to her that Sesame was only opened that one day and that Maddie was lucky enough to be born smack-dab-in-the-middle of the dreaded Pennsylvania winter. January 11th. In Shreveport, it was no big deal. But, here we are limited to what we can do to celebrate. Chocolate World, though, was an excellent idea.
We went on Friday and she had a blast. So did Faith. Amber came with her nephew, Cameron- who happens to turn 5 on January 14th, so the two of them were busy comparing their birth dates- and it was a lot of fun. We ended up riding the tour ride 3 times, and actually tried the free portion of the "Factory Works" experience this time. It was awesome. They all enjoyed that a lot. They got their "work" photos taken and then received their factory hats. They went down the assembly line and the woman gave them a plastic Hershey container. When she called their number, they had to press the button and place their Hershey container there to collect all of the Hershey's kisses that would accumulate. Then they had to place their container on the conveyor belt where it was wrapped shut. It was really cute. They even had to clock out of "work!"
My youngest little woman is cow-obsessed. Or, I should say, "Boooo" obsessed. She was SO very excited to see the boo's singing during the ride, and always anxious to ride again to see them again. The second we had to get off of the ride each of the 3 times, she was already asking "Where Boo?" and wanted to ride again.
My almost 4-year old little woman had a wonderful time with her pal, Cameron. They were so funny riding in the front of the ride with Amber's mom. They held hands and Maddie would giggle about whatever Cameron was telling her about going through the roasting tube, etc. He was too funny!
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We stayed the night in Lancaster at Nene's house, which is always a hit with the little women. Maddie was quite anxious for her birthday "party" on Saturday. She had spent the course of a week browsing through her 2 cookbooks and spending forever at Barnes and Noble looking through their cookbooks, and had chosen two different "appeteasers" she wanted to make herself for her party. She found "fancy dipped strawberries" and "party cone hats" and these are the two that she chose. She was so very proud of herself. The strawberries were a hit, but the party cone hats sat almost untouched due to the fear that the JuJube's were too stale. Haha. She LOVED her princess cake, although I wasn't too pleased with it's appearance. I am not skilled in the art of decorating.
Cran loved Donovan's pinata at his 3rd birthday party this past August. She had remembered it, and asked if she could have one about a week ago. We found a very inexpensive one at Target that resembled the one I had when I turned four as well. I told Maddie that I had a pinata at my 4th birthday party, and she thought that was so cool that we had that in common. She and Beebster were the only ones swinging at the pinata with the baseball bat, but Dan did help them to put an accessible crack in it. They thought it was great to collect candy for their bags!
My little chef received an awesome Betty Crocker kid's cookbook from Tia Rosa that was the hit. She has not stopped looking through that book. We went to Giant today, and she already picked out the ingredients to make cookie ice cream sandwiches tonight. Considering she is actually napping this afternoon (busy, busy weekend!), she and Beebster will get to bake and eat tonight for a "movie night!" She also got a princess sweatshirt from Nene that of course was a hit since it has Aurora on it. She has worn that now two days in a row! And, a Barbie car from Grammy that she and Beebster have not stopped playing with since yesterday. Maddie has a Barbie doll and her Aurora doll in it earlier, and told me matter-of-factly that the Barbie doll is the leader because she is "42 years old." Haha.
It was a wonderful weekend, and one that Maddie thoroughly appreciated. She had also taken her "Pretty, Pretty Princess" game because she wanted to play with everybody, and had so much fun playing 3 rounds with Daddy, Grampa, Tia Rosa, and then her uncles too. She kept telling everybody "thank you so much for my celebration!" She's my sweet Crannie!
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To put a cherry on top of this weekend, my littlest stinker has now officially started moving hard enough that I can feel him/her if I put my hand on top of my stomach. 21 1/2 weeks. I remember Faith moving very, very early (in fact, this one scared me because I didn't feel him/her until about 18 weeks consistently) but she wasn't moving hard enough for Dan and I to feel her until 24 weeks. It's quite the exhilarating feeling, and something that I've always enjoyed so very much while being pregnant. He/she was doing some dance moves last night during the Chargers/Colts game, and it was the funniest thing!
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