Emily's (early) birthday celebration

Emily's birthday is really the end of May, but us girls are leaving for Texas tomorrow and Daniel is leaving for Mojave Viper. For those of you in the civilian world, that means 5 weeks without Daddy. Sad news. At least the first two weeks we will be in Texas, then we only have 3 weeks without him at home.

Anyways...

Since we won't all be together for Emily's birthday, we decided to celebrate it this past Sunday. We didn't do anything big -- we just let her open her presents. She woke up from her nap that day all whiny. I took her into the kitchen and showed her the "Happy Birthday" balloon we got her and explained that we were going to celebrate her birthday. I told her that two years ago she was born and on her birthday each year, she gets to open presents. Then she looked at me, and slapped me. No joke.

That is not at all how I saw it going in my head.

After the initial shock of getting older set in, we had some fun. She absolutely loved playing with her balloon...

After dinner, we let her blow out candles on a cupcake. Although it took her a couple of tries, she loved blowing the candles out so much that we had to blow them out twice.

All she was doing was licking the icing, so I broke the cupcake in half to show her she could also eat the goodness under the icing. That apparently upset her because she then crumbled the cupcake into a million pieces, poured it off her plate, and refused to have anything else to do with it.

After we cleaned the area, we let her open presents. We got her a couple of books. She LOVES books.

Since she loves girly accessories, we got her a pair of her own sunglasses. They are quite ridiculous looking. They are just mini adult sunglasses. We will see how much she chooses to wear them this summer.

She also got a cool new swimsuit for Texas and having fun outside this summer.

Last, but not least, we got her a new pair of sandals. I knew buying them, they would be a little big, but they were too good of a deal to pass up.

I completely forgot about her club feet, though. In the past, I have had to get all her shoes at Stride Rite because she doesn't fit in to normal shoes. We got lucky with one pair from Old Navy recently, so I completely forgot the issues we have. Turns out, that although they should have been too big, she couldn't even cram the height of her foot into half the sandal. Way to go Mom.