Friday, December 31, 2010
Natalie is five!
And boy will she tell you all about it too! lol She spent her birthday literally saying every so many minutes, I'm FIVE! It was pretty funny. Unfortunately, the holidays kind of messed things up. Her birthday this year fell on a Monday right after Christmas and New Year's followed the next Saturday. I would still like to set up something for her though and I think we're going to make plans to go bowling. At the very least, we'll do it as a family but invite a couple of her friends to join too if they would like. I just need to call and get prices for it.She got a few presents the day before her birthday. Her aunt Debbie sent a whole bunch of wrapped presents so I let her open a couple of them. She got so many things from her, I can't even remember them all and she still has another box to send! It was good though because we had no money and the only present we had for her therefore was the one I bought her shortly after she was born.
I did bake her a cake; it was a homemade chocolate cake with homemade cream cheese frosting. It was a very yummy cake but it didn't look very pretty lol. I had some trouble getting the cake out of the pan so it got a little messed up. Natalie decided she wanted to go to the Rotary Lights. She had never seen them before so she really wanted to see them. We went, taking the bus downtown and meeting John down there but we couldn't walk around there too long, it was SO COLD! Even Natalie started to complain about the cold. But she loved the lights and thought they were all very pretty. Getting home proved to be interesting as we missed our stop and ended up on the bus another 40 minutes. I was not too thrilled with that. Dinner was banana pancakes and we had that, cake and ice cream, and presents. She loved everything she got, especially the Beauty and the Beast VHS (we currently have a VCR but the only DVD play we have is on my computer). She liked the candles we put on her cake too, they had colored flames which was very neat to a five year old.
The next day we went out and got her a few things ourselves since John got paid. We went to Once Upon a Child and Wal-Mart and bought her some stuff including Play Dough (this might not have been quite so smart a move since the play dough is NOT getting back into the canisters and is instead getting all over the floor). She loves all of her toys but I can't help but think she's a little bit overwhelmed by the sheer number of toys in her play room. I may have to cut down on some of what she has, just have to figure out how. Her doll house has been put together though she already managed to partially break a closet by sitting on it.
The end of the week was pretty exciting for her too. She had her one friend over Thursday when I babysat her for her mom and Friday, there was a family New Year's Eve thing down at the local convention center. She got to bounce in a bounce house, go down a HUGE slide, and go through an inflatable obstacle course. She also did crafts, got her face painted, and got a balloon flower. Then, at midnight, we watched the local fireworks from our deck outside. It was COLD out but she loved them.
This has been quite a week and she's been quite a hoot these days too, especially since lately, she's convinced that we gave her Isabelle for her birthday. Too funny.
For the new year and because we now have two little girls, not just one, I have decided to end this blog. I will be keeping it up (I do have five years of Natalie history on here after all) but will no longer be posting new entries. The new blog can be found here: http://natalieandisabelle.blogspot.com/.
| posted by Janeen at 11:41 PM
