I can't believe that my first baby is 4 years old!! Where does the time go? My baby is not so much of a baby any more. But I am so proud of the girl that she is becoming. Our Ava girl is so sweet, tenderhearted, and full of joy mixed in with some sassiness. I could not love her more!
We celebrated Ava's birthday as a family on her birthday. We started the day off with biscuits and gravy; her favorite and then went to see "Inside Out" at the movie theater. Ava loved the movie and I have to add that Ella did great in her first movie :) Honestly, I think us adults enjoyed the movie just as much as the kids. We had popcorn for lunch at the movie and Ava picked out M & Ms to go along with her popcorn. On your birthday you can get away with anything, right?!!
She opened her presents from us in the afternoon: barbie, barbie car, books, and balloons. Her request has been for barbie and balloons :) She played with them for most of the afternoon and then we went to Red Robin for birthday dinner so that Ava could get her mac and cheese. We ended her birthday with ice cream cake from DQ. Yummy!!
Day 2 of her birthday she opened her birthday gift from Lau Lau and Pappy; a train set!! She was in heaven!! Her and Baba spent a while setting up the train and playing in the living room. We've since decided that the train set will need to be set up in her room so that we can keep her little sister from getting in trouble with it ;) On day 2, Uncle Robert and Catherine showed up too with gifts. Ava got 2 whole new outfits from them including a zebra shirt and silver, sparkle shoes. By the end of the day Nai Nai and Grandpa were here too!!
Day 3 of celebrations was a cake and ice cream party with friends, family, and neighbors. We had a great turn out, especially on 4th of July morning. But we have really awesome friends!! Ava had a great time playing with her friends with balloons, in the sand box, and with the water table. I can't tell you how great it was to see our friends again. Many of them we hadn't seen since arriving back home. Lau Lau made and decorated a Strawberry Shortcake cake and we also had our famous strawberry cake. That along with coffee, capri sun, tea, and ice cream and we were set. Ava had such a great time playing that we didn't even get presents opened before people started leaving. That's okay because spending time with friends is way more important that presents. After her friends went home she did get her gifts opened. She got lots of great stuff: books, 3 more Barbies, cute clothes, and a few toys. Ava is one loved little girl!!
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