Last Friday was Amanda's birthday. Yes, I'm a little late with the post. Won't be the last time. We got home from Destin super late on Saturday and were total wastes on Sunday. On Monday, Charlie headed back to work and the first thing Amanda asked was, "Is today my birthday?". She knew it was coming, she just didn't know when. When you tell a 4 yr old it's on Friday, that could be six months from now for all she knows. So, every day until Friday she asked me if it was her birthday. She also talked incessantly about her birthday party, for which we had extremely low rsvps for but she didn't care. When I was telling her that there wouldn't be many people there because they were out of town or whatnot she just looked at Sarah and said, "that's okay, that's more candy (from the pinata) for us", and smiled. Nothing was going to ruin her day.
On Friday morning she called me into her room just before 7a. I was half asleep but was able to ask her what she needed and all she said was, "I'm so excited!". I wanted to be excited too but was too exhausted. So I went to lie down for a little bit longer. About 15-20 minutes later she came into the room and asked me for a birthday hug. I love that kid. Once we got up we went to the grocery store and I let her pick out a birthday cake for dinner. We had cupcakes ordered for the party, which was on Saturday, but wanted to do some celebrating on Friday since it was her actually birthday. Plus our friends, the Povedas, were in town from Dallas so it was going to be an extra special dinner.
As I said, we had a pretty low turnout to the party, but she didn't care. Because she wanted to have her friends from school as well as the bigger kids from the cul-de-sac come, we decided to have two parties. I didn't want the big kids to take over the bounce house and any of the little kids to be scared or get hurt. So, the little kids were invited to come at 11a and the bigger kids at 4p. Two of the four kids we invited came to the morning party, as well as our three kids and the three Poveda kids, so it actually was just fine. She's only 4, she didn't need a ton of guests. They played in the bounce house (can I tell you how happy we were to find out that it did in fact fit comfortably in our backyard), which now the girls want to buy one, had pizza and cupcakes and hit the pinata. What more could you ask for?
Unfortunately we only got one rsvp for the afternoon party from our next door neighbors and they showed up about 20 minutes before the bounce house got picked up because they were a little late, but again Amanda didn't care. It was actually nice just to hang out with their family for a few hours and Charlie made his awesome burgers and the kids (and the Dads) played some Wii Rock band. All in all a good, manageable day.
She's already started to talk about the bounce house she's getting next year, so who knows how soon full fledged birthday talk will begin again. Hopefully she will wait until after Christmas. I do know that next year I will wait about a month to have her party, after school has started, nobody is on vacation and she can invite a few more people. She probably won't care either way, as long as it's here birthday.
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