Leka's 5th Birthday

My little Leky is 5 years old & so big now!! ..She had a blast on her birhtday!

-She picked out her new bike.

-We went to Cherry Hill.... Only me & the kids have passes, so it was fun to have Daddy come, too. Leka liked that she go to go down the big, fast dragon slide with me--although when it's just me & the kids, (and I have to hold Austin) she's brave to go down it all by herself! -- (No pictures...I never take my camera to Cherry Hill...maybe when my sister comes with us I will.)

-Then we had her party. (Traditional cake, ice cream, & presents) at home. She picked out pizza for dinner.

Here she is looking so cute in her new birthday shirt. She loves Nihao Kailan (a kid's show on Nick Jr.)--so that was kind of the theme for her birthday.

I got her the shirt because she'd requested a Nihao Kailan cake.




I've decided to start a new tradition:
I always feel like it's a bit of a shame, working to make a cute cake, then just cutting it right up...so I decided to frost what's leftover (or just make an extra round) of cake to eat that day...We cut into the kailan cake the next day--but I think it's fun to have it around to look at for mor than an hour.




Here's the cute poncho my grandma crocheted for Leka--she's always so sweet to make her a nice gift...I hope Leka will want to wear this to school or church this fall.

OK, this dinky little toy...it's dumb & a rip-off, but Leka has been begging for it for months (they keep it by the check-out :p) ...So I thought her birthday was a good opportunity to get it for her.
(It's just a fluffy thing on a thin string, but her & Austin Did have fun playing with it...whatever.)

Do you see the burnt match on there?...I thought we had plently of candles in the cupboard (I was wrong).

I love Leka's face when she opened her little Snow White doll.

Leka loves these little princess dolls...she didn't have Snow White yet & that's the only thing she'd requested for her birthday--these dolls are only 5 bucks...but I used a half-tank of gas driving around trying to find it! (I got her Belle, too since the head fell off her other Belle doll.)

(They go fast in the stores & most had only Cinderella and maybe Sleeping Beauty left.) -- If you need to find one of these dolls, I would suggest Target--by the registers, that's where I've found ones we couldn't find elsewhere.

Austin sneaks a taste of the frosting

I used Leka's birthday to get her more ABC day tools

...I thought Kailan kind of looked like Mickey Mouse & decided to give her a face...idk if it really made a difference.

Leka on her new bike (she looks so big!)

...And in a month, my baby will go to Kindergarten!!! ...I keep reminding myself how nice it was to run errands with just Austin those couple hours she was in preschool--Hopefully I'll be Ok on that big first day...I know Leka's really excited.