Thursday was Mary’s birthday! She woke up to balloons, presents, and her new hula hoop.
We sang to her over her breakfast plum cake:
She opened presents and went to school. At school she brought Krispy Kreme pink-frosted donuts with sprinkles for everyone, and somehow somewhere someone gave her candy too. So when I picked her up, she was sucking on candy. At that point she had had cake, a donut, and candy. I am not sure she ate much of her lunch. I also snuck a small present in her lunch bag to unwrap. (It wasn’t candy. It was a Hello Kitty nail polish set.)
Then she came home and played with some of her new things with Lydia and Ammon. I had spent the whole day cooking, cleaning, and listening to the Brett Kavanaugh senate trial and was still listening at that point, so I encouraged all of the kids to just play away and forget about homework or music. I could not tear myself away from the trial for a minute, so I was a bit checked out while the kids played.
Then Abe came home and set up the piñata. We invited all of the neighbor kids over and batted that poor seahorse down.
After the piñata we sent home all the kids and ate outside in the GORGEOUS weather. We had exactly what Mary requested: homemade rolls, grilled salmon, peas, and broccoli soup.
Then we cleaned everyone and everything up and headed over to Menchie’s for yet MORE sugar. Mary said on the last daddy-daughter date that she wanted to go to Menchie’s for her birthday, so we obliged.
Then we came home and Mary had another round of unwrapping presents.
This girls is so darling and dear to all of our hearts. She is so sweet, so smart, so tender-hearted. Her heart and mind are full of rainbows, unicorns, and every sort of bright color imaginable. One day this past year she was showing her drawings to her Nana and explained that she wanted her drawings to help people feel the love of Jesus. She is just the sweetest. We love our little Mary Berry. Happy birthday, sweet girl!!