Chelsea's 4th Birthday!

Chels turned 4 yesterday. We had been telling her that her birthday was coming for so long that I think she stopped believing us. But yesterday morning when she came into my bedroom the first thing she said was "Is it my birthday today?" I told her yes and she got a huge smile on her face. She's been telling me all day today that she is 4 now. We didn't do anything big for her special day but I hope she still had fun. We are planning to do a birthday party for her when we get to Idaho in 3 weeks. Then we can invite her cousins and fun will be had by all!

To start off her birthday we took her to get her immunizations. I know we are mean, cruel parents. These are the shots she will need to start school so we decided to just get them done as soon as possible and while we still have health insurance. I figured her birthday was a good day to take her because then I could bring her home and we could give her the presents and she'd forget all about the shots, and my plan worked! I think she was actually proud of her war wounds by the end of the day. Getting her into the clinic was a joke though. She watched some cartoon a few weeks ago where they talked about getting shots and so she was scared to death. I had to literally carry her kicking and screaming into the building. I also had to hold her down for all 4 shots. She is one strong little 4 year old! It definitely gave me a work out. I felt bad for inflicting this sort of fear and pain on my little girl but I know it's for her own good.

Chels showing off her band-aids.

Opening her presents. She had wished for a blue puppy, this is what I found. It's a baby toy but oh well!
Her Grandma Davies sent her tons of fun stuff to draw with and color with and paint with, hours of fun!

She also got a doggy purse which she has been carrying around ever since she opened it.

This is the kind of ugly cake that results from taking your child to the store and letting her pick out her own cake. She woke up on her birthday telling me she had a birthday dream and in this dream she had a balloon cake. Well guess what happened to be at Foodco, a balloon cake! She was so happy!!!

She also HAD to have the "Happy Birthday" candles.

Then she tasted the cake and wasn't so happy anymore. She hated it, haha, oh well. I think she was expecting that uber sugary frosting that comes from store bought cakes. This frosting was actually just cool whip, which was fine with me! I hate that store bought frosting!

After cake and presents and all the celebrating. Doesn't Marriner looked thrilled, haha. My lips are stained from that frosting.

At the end of the day I think she enjoyed herself, I hope she did. We let her make all the decisions for our little party and for most of the day. We went and ate lunch with Papa at his work, which is one of her most favorite things to do. We went to the playground in the afternoon and Jake took her to get an Icee after he got off work. We also let her eat way too many sweets. But that's what birthdays are for, right?!?!