emi's 4th birthday

emi is finally 4!!

since about 2 & 3/4 i have felt like emi is 15

so i am happy she is finally 4

i've heard the horrible three's go away and are replaced by sweet angel children

i'm not holding my breath

the week leading up to her birthday

she kept talking about having a party and her friends were coming over

and she wanted a bounce house

little did she know i had nothing planned.

i can't believe i've never thrown her a friends birthday party

we will have to next year for sure.

the problem we have is all the kids are a year older or a year younger than her

so the older kids think she is a 'baby' and she thinks the ones younger than her are 'babies'

a few days before eddie and i decided we would take her to chuckie cheese

we have a new one in town and we figured now or never while it's new

well...when she woke up her birthday morning she wondered when her party was starting

i had to break the news....dun dun dun...no party

so instead i said i had a surprise for her

she has been dying to go to fairy tale town

she had no idea where we were going until we pulled into the parking lot

and she was so excited!!

not sure if it was worth it to buy the dang key

by the looks of this picture she seems bored to death. ha!

there were a lot of kids with keys that day...first day of spring break

emi is a quick amusement park person.

some friends of ours showed up a few minutes after us

we had gone through the whole park

before they had even gone to two attractions.

yes he had 3 kids with him...but still

she rides the slide once, and she's done

she looked at the farm and was done.

seen one cow, seen em' all i guess :)

she wanted to be the driver for some reason.

and thought it was so fun.

she put her head in each of the wizard of oz people

until she got to the tin man

she would peek through and say: no! not him or her

then she hit the play ground

makai was sleeping so i got out my zoom lens

i was shocked she was climbing this 'tree trunk'

especially in a skirt! usually she is a nervous nellie.

i looked down for 2 seconds and then saw her climbing this

i almost ran to her, since she has never even tried to climb that

this was as far as she went. 

then she must have changed her mind.

then she worked her way down.

 she was so excited to come tell me she climbed up

little did she know i was watching the entire time.

then she got to choose where she wanted to eat for lunch

of course she pick mcdonalds

she had her usual, except this time i ordered her a hot fudge sundae.

she died and went to heaven.

sometimes she would just take a spoonful of hot fudge

other times just ice cream and obviously together.

needless this chocolate lover, loved it.

we were gonna go to funderland across the street

but mr. fussy pants only likes to nap in his crib

so we headed home. once eddie got home she opened presents.

she had opened ours in the morning. so boring...just summer clothes.

in her card from momo and poppy was a gift card

to her favorite place, jamba juice.

i thought this picture was hilarious. we asked her what it said.

instead of looking at the symbol she was literally trying to read it.

she is a pro at scissors.

emi insisted on using her scissors to open the box up.

so excited!! doc mcstuffin.

she has slept with her every night.

i have a funny story i will put in here

cause i want to remember it.

emi was asking me about halloween and what she wanted to be

either sofia the first or doc mcstuffin....shocker!!

well i explained it would be easier to be doc mcstuffin since she has the dr kit

she would just need a white jacket. which i could make or we would buy.

emi went on to say she needed some tennis shoes, and then there was this silence

of her thinking.....then she said

and you need to paint my face brown.

in that same sentence she said, oh yeah and a headband!

i asked her why we needed to paint her face.

she said she needed to paint her face brown cause doc mcstuffin was brown

so i took the opportunity to talk about different skin tones.

but i laughed so hard on the inside when she said that.

the little things she noticed.

moving on up from the sippy cups.

so chuckie cheese was ok.

emi had fun. we felt like we were at walmart.

bad cell phone pictures. but she loved it!

this was her favorite ride

she wasn't happy it didn't give tickets.

it barely moved and reminded me of tanner's

i need another quarter ride (inside joke)

the cake. oh boy.

so usually we get an ice cream cake

cause emi doesn't eat cake, or cookies (unless homemade)

well we didn't have space in our freezer

and she saw the rainbow cake on pinterest and wanted it

so i spent the day before her birthday dyeing batter and baking all day

well the cake was too soft and when i went to frost it

it fell apart. my dad thought it was a legit dr. seuss cake.

i swear i didn't think the cake would survive

and went to bed anticipating having half the cake fall onto the ground

well it survived. it was ugly but edible.

when emi saw it, she covered her mouth and gasped.

i said: i'm sorry it didn't turn out.

she said: i don't care. i love it!

i was gonna go get an ice cream cake. but after that i knew i couldn't.

getting ready to blow out her candles and make a wish.

gpa asked her what she wished for

eddie and i both laughed when she said:

a puppy!

she would probably get another sibling or two

before she gets a puppy if ever. we aren't animal people.

a couple days later was my birthday.

i'm 31 now. i guess that means i am officially old :)

emi was so excited to celebrate.

found a new favorite at leatherby's, the peanut butter sauce