To ease the pain of a very busy December, we had Katie's birthday party nice and early in November. She was thrilled to have her party early and then basically get to celebrate her birthday over again a few weeks later. She had her party at Alpha Omega Gymnastics where she has attended several parties and after the last declared that is where she wanted to have her next party. It was a Hello Kitty theme and most importantly she had a fantastic time. So did Jack and Luke who loved the fact they could run wild and all the surfaces were padded! Luke really became fond of the trampoline and the air log and both loved the pizza and cake!
I was very impressed with Katie and her approach to opening her birthday presents from her party. She opened one at a time and I suggested she write the thank you note after each one. She was very on board with this suggestion and took her time with each note. It took about a week to open everything this way and she was fine with that. She loved all her presents and this way actually played or used each one rather than forgetting about it and moving on to the next present. She got all her notes written (thankfully over the Thanksgiving holiday) well before I would have been able to do them for her!
On her actual birthday, Andy stayed home late so he could have breakfast with his girl, she opened her presents from Grandma & Grandad and Auntie Louise & Uncle Richard before leaving for school. I had lunch with her at school and at her request brought her macaroni & cheese with carrots and an apple sauce! We also had special cookies to share with her class. After school we had another party with the Hanhan boys and when Andy got home we had our second Hello Kitty birthday cake and opened the rest of her family presents!
All in all she had two great birthday celebrations and I was exhausted! I have always made a very big deal about birthdays and I hope this does not change, now we just have to get ready for Jack's in a few days!
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