On Wednesday night I took the kids the the Spring Fling at school. It was the night before the last day of school so everybody was in a fabulous mood. The kids had a great time and Amanda especially liked the three bounce houses that were there. On the way home she asked if we could get those three same bounce houses for her birthday party.
Seems like a normal, legitimate question. A kid asking about a bounce house for their birthday. Except that her birthday is in August and she has been asking about this party since January. I am not kidding or exaggerating in the slightest bit. A few weeks after Christmas she started talking about her birthday. We explained to her that everyone in the family had to have their birthday first, then we had to get out of school, then we had to go on several trips and THEN she would have her birthday. She doesn't care, she talks about it non-stop.
If you take her to a store that has toys, such as Target, she will go up to just about every toy she sees and tell you she wants it for her birthday. If you are worried about what to get her. Don't be. Whatever you pick I am sure she has told me at least once that she wants it for her birthday. I told Charlie several times how time consuming and annoying it is to take Amanda to the store because she stops and tells you she wants everything for her birthday. He believed me, but never experienced it for himself until one day when his brother was here and he took her with them to Ross. During their shopping trip he texted me the following: "Amanda might need a gift card to Ross for her birthday. I think that she wanted everything there for her birthday." Um, yeah, that's what I've been telling you for months.
She also has pretty much planned out her party. She wants it to be here in the backyard and she wants a princess/castle bounce house. She also wants to fix it so the kids can slide down the playset into the bounce house and wants a pinata on top of the bounce house so they kids can bounce while they try to hit the pinata. First of all, I haven't had a birthday party at the house for the kids in a very long time. When I was pregnant with Sarah I had Andy's somewhere and I swore I would never have one at home again. So she's already breaking my first birthday party rule. Second, we're not even sure a bounce house can fit in our backyard. Third, if it can fit in our backyard you cannot rig the slide to slide right into the bounce house. Fourth, you just can't do that with a pinata.
So, she may be a little disappointed by her party, but she knows what she wants. When the other two were her age, they didn't even talk about their birthday that far out. A couple months before their birthday I would ask them where they wanted their party and they had no clue. It usually changed by the day or week depending on where we were going and where the other birthday parties they attending were. Never would they stick to the same crazy idea for six months. They also didn't ask people to come to their birthday party months in advance. Almost all of our friends (granted that's not very many) have already been invited to her party and know when it is because she has been planning and inviting people for so long.
Now that school is out she thinks her party is just days away. I have tried to explain that she has two months to go, but it's like talking to deaf ears. The kid is centrally focused and will listen to no one. Luckily we should have lots going on this summer to distract her, but I seriously think she might explode from the excitement when she finally turns four.
Oh, and a bonus for me, she says when she is four she will finally start wiping herself. That would be the best gift of all!
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