Sunday, March 8, 2009

ELLA'S BIRTHDAY WEEK 2009

This is Ella's birthday week -- a very special time of year for our soon-to-be-7-year-old. Wow, is it possible that my baby is this big?! Birthday week is a tradition that we have enjoyed for quite a few years. We celebrate birthday week for the girls -- Eric and I just get our regular birthdays :)

Thanks to some major clearance sale shopping this year, I was able to get Ella several treats for her to enjoy during her birthday week. Today she had some creative time with her new Crayola kids' paint.



Her first present (on Thursday) was a children's dictionary. She LOVES it! Avery politely requested that she NOT receive a dictionary for her birthday week. How different can two kids be?!

You will notice in the picture above our fiber optic birthday cake -- a birthday week fixture!
Ella decided to invite just a few friends to help her celebrate her birthday at Tops Cooking School. Yesterday they attended a Littlest Pet Shop Snacks class and they had a ball!




Eating the fruit of their labors!

Following their cooking class, the girls returned to our house for a Littlest Pet Shop frog cake (made by Eric, of course -- another birthday week tradition!).

Ella says that her favorite gift (so far) is an ice skating dress for her American Girl "Mia" doll. This was a present from Avery. Ella was so excited to get "exactly what I wanted!"

Stay tuned for more news from birthday week, including a full album of photos from her party and special activities. Okay, I know not all of you are interested in that much detail, but we have two faithful Grandmas on our reader list :)

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